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 ...

The intergovernmental body that regulates tuna fisheries in the Indian Ocean agreed to a suite of shark conservation measures ...

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.

Approximately 50 million more sharks die annually as bycatch in unregulated fisheries ... great white sharks in 2005; oceanic whitetip, smooth hammerhead, scalloped hammerhead, great hammerhead, and ...

(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 ...