{"id":400515,"date":"2026-04-15T22:24:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-15T22:24:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/400515\/"},"modified":"2026-04-15T22:24:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-15T22:24:07","slug":"wildlife-inspectors-seized-50000-shark-fins-in-protected-species-exploitation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/400515\/","title":{"rendered":"Wildlife inspectors seized 50,000 shark fins in protected species exploitation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Not your average shark tale.. or average shipment.<\/p>\n<p>NASHVILLE, Tenn (WZTV) &#8211;  In October 2025, US. Fish and Wildlife Service inspectors seized 50,000 shark fins.<\/p>\n<p>Inspectors discovered more than 1,600 pounds of shark fins worth over $1 million across multiple U.S. ports. <\/p>\n<p>Coordinated trafficking operations were moving disguised cargo through Alaska, Kentucky, and Ohio. <\/p>\n<p>USFWS explained that this was an organized criminal network exploiting protected species for profit. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Not your average shark tale.. or average shipment. NASHVILLE, Tenn (WZTV) &#8211; In October 2025, US. Fish and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":400516,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[61,60,82,263],"class_list":{"0":"post-400515","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wildlife","8":"tag-ie","9":"tag-ireland","10":"tag-science","11":"tag-wildlife"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/400515","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=400515"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/400515\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/400516"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=400515"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=400515"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=400515"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}