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Shark deaths due to fishing have increased in recent years despite an international effort to reduce the harvesting of their fins, according to a new study that included contributions from Canadian researchers. A white shark swims across a sandbar, off the Massachusetts’s coast of Cape Cod, on Friday, Aug. 13, 2021. THE CANADIAN PRESS/AP-Phil Marcelo

Shark deaths tied to fishing still climbing despite shark-fin crackdown

Global fishing-related shark deaths rose to 80 million per year from 76 million from 2012 to 2019

 

FILE - Confiscated shark fins are shown during a news conference, Thursday, Feb. 6, 2020, in Doral, Fla. A spate of recent criminal indictments highlights how U.S. companies, taking advantage of a patchwork of federal and state laws, are supplying a market for fins that activists say is as reprehensible as the now-illegal trade in elephant ivory once was. (AP Photo/Wilfredo Lee, File)

U.S. government targeting companies caught in lucrative shark fin trade

Some 73 million sharks are killed a year for their fins

 

Children wearing shark outfits join a protest of a group of animal conservation activists near a local Chinese restaurant in Hong Kong, Saturday, April 21, 2018. The activists demanded Chinese restaurants to stop providing sharks fin soup on their menu from the endangered species as for centuries, shark fin, usually served as soup, has been a coveted delicacy in Chinese cooking. (AP Photo/Kin Cheung)

B.C. company fined $75,000 for importing fins of protected sharks

Feds say Hang Hing Herbal Medicine Ltd. imported 22 bags of processed shark fins in September 2017