The command’s Area Controller, Comptroller Muhammed Yusuf, said this in a news conference in Lagos on Thursday. Yusuf noted that this was through coordinated anti-smuggling activities in synergy with ...

Shipments of illegally-trafficked dried shark fins were intercepted in Ohio and Kentucky last year, according to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. Officials say the seizures were part of a larger ...

A customs officer stands on a humid dock surrounded by crates of dried shark fins, sweat dripping down her neck as she take a small sample for testing. The air smells like salt and diesel, and in the ...

U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service inspectors seized approximately 50,000 dried shark fins at multiple ports nationwide in October 2025, officials announced Monday. Authorities discovered more than 1,600 ...

After years of research, Cardeñosa pioneered a forensic tool that can quickly and cheaply detect if a dried shark fin comes from a protected species. Like a rapid COVID-19 test, the device has helped ...

CHICAGO — Like at other herb shops in Chinatown, the glass jars lining shelves at Yin Wall City offer floral teas, shitake mushrooms and a seafood product that looks strangely like dried corn husks ...

Watch out, Jaws — your days are numbered. Money-hungry fishermen and sellers are ignoring international regulations in favor of big profits in the illegal sale of shark fins — and new research led by ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Inspectors with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service seized roughly 50,000 dried shark fins at ports across the U.S. in October of ...