How one project in Indonesia introduced a pay-to-release scheme that encourages fishers to save shark and ray bycatch.

Giant manta rays and oceanic whitetip sharks are intentionally hunted in other countries —the sharks for their large fins and the manta rays for their gills, both prized in Asian markets. They are ...

Oceanic whitetip sharks are the boldest ... whitetips repeatedly steal their fish. But how these sharks know exactly when a fisherman had caught a fish remained a mystery, until now.

(CNN)-- A German woman died Sunday after being attacked by a shark in waters off Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt, in an area where three snorkelers were injured and two sharks were caught last week ...

This increase in longline activity also poses an increasing threat to oceanic shark populations caught as bycatch and which now appear to be showing signs of rapid depletion. Similarly, fishery ...