U.S. authorities have assisted the Peruvian government in seizing an estimated 10,000 individual shark fins destined for China – one of the largest wildlife trafficking operations in Latin American history. The bust, on Nov. 10 at an industrial port outside of Lima, led to the arrest of three men tied to a transnational criminal network…
The largest male great white shark to be tagged in the Atlantic has reemerged in waters off the coast of southern New Jersey, research group OCEARCH said. When the group tagged the nearly 14-foot-long predator, named Contender, in January, he was swimming near the Florida-Georgia border. He has traveled over 4,300 miles since then. Contender…
A woman was walking her dogs on an Oregon beach when she saw a small shark struggling. It was lucky timing for the salmon shark, which was suffocating in a low tide area near the shoreline. “I was essentially nervous about touching it at all,” Colleen Dunn, wrote in a text message Wednesday. “I have…