MILPITAS — A Milpitas man was sentenced to five months home detention and ordered to pay fines and restitution for his role in a live shark poaching operation that illegally sold undersized ...

SAN FRANCISCO — The church founded by the Rev. Sun Myung Moon will pay $500,000 to restore damaged habitat -- and avoid prosecution -- in the case of a pastor who poached hundreds of baby sharks ...

MILPITAS — A Milpitas man pleaded guilty to federal charges involving a live shark poaching operation that exported undersized specimens caught in the bay and imported juvenile nurse sharks from ...

The victims: 21 great white sharks. The evidence: A bag of dried fins confiscated in New York. The investigator: A South Florida scientist who developed a technique for rapidly identifying shark sp… ...

MANTA, Ecuador – It was billed as the biggest poaching bust in history, a monumental win for conservationists. An Ecuadorean Navy patrol vessel, guided by advanced radar and a small plane, bore ...

Shark fishing is banned in the territory where the poaching took place, although Indonesia still boasts the world's largest shark fishery, according to Conservation International.

Shark poaching happens everywhere, from Florida to French Polynesia, but it’s the Pacific Ocean off Central America that has become ground zero in the battle to protect sharks.

Five men, including a Bay Area pastor, have been charged with illegally catching thousands of undersized California leopard sharks in San Francisco Bay and conspiring to sell them to pet shop ...

Florida is getting closer to imposing stiffer fines for bear poaching and expanding rules against shark “finning.” The Senate Rules Committee on Monday approved bills to address those issues ...

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