{"id":400569,"date":"2026-04-15T23:00:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-15T23:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/400569\/"},"modified":"2026-04-15T23:00:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-15T23:00:08","slug":"authorities-seize-50000-dried-shark-fins-at-us-ports-valued-at-more-than-1-million","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/400569\/","title":{"rendered":"Authorities seize 50,000 dried shark fins at US ports, valued at more than $1 million"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">(Gray News) &#8211; Officials with the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/USFWS\/posts\/in-october-2025-us-fish-and-wildlife-service-wildlife-inspectors-seized-roughly-\/1371605221676737\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/USFWS\/posts\/in-october-2025-us-fish-and-wildlife-service-wildlife-inspectors-seized-roughly-\/1371605221676737\/\">U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service<\/a> say the team seized thousands of dried shark fins across several U.S. ports.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">According to the wildlife agency, about 50,000 shark fins were taken in from 20 shipments at ports, totaling more than 1,600 pounds and valued at over $1 million. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Inspectors say the first shipment was discovered in Anchorage, Alaska, which sparked a wider investigation. Their work led to the interception of additional shipments moving through Alaska, Kentucky and Ohio while the items were transiting from Mexico to Hong Kong. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The shipments were disguised as car parts found to be linked to a larger trafficking network. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The agency noted that the staggering number of fins was predominantly from silky sharks and bigeye thresher sharks, protected under the endangered species trade law. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">All fins were seized for multiple violations of wildlife laws.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Officials said the violations have been shared with international partners to support appropriate enforcement actions.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The USFWS says a wildlife crime can be reported <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fws.gov\/wildlife-crime-tips\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.fws.gov\/wildlife-crime-tips\">online<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright |\">Copyright 2026 Gray Local Media, Inc. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"(Gray News) &#8211; Officials with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service say the team seized thousands of dried&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":400570,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[176783,176784,176785,9340,176774,176776,176775,176777,61,60,176786,82,176780,176782,176781,92845,176778,176779,263],"class_list":{"0":"post-400569","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wildlife","8":"tag-000-dried-shark-fins","9":"tag-000-dried-shark-fins-seized","10":"tag-000-dried-shark-fins-seized-us-ports","11":"tag-9340","12":"tag-dried-shark-fins","13":"tag-dried-shark-fins-bust","14":"tag-dried-shark-fins-illegal-trade","15":"tag-dried-shark-fins-seized","16":"tag-ie","17":"tag-ireland","18":"tag-more-than-1-million-dried-shark-fins","19":"tag-science","20":"tag-shark-fins-seized","21":"tag-shark-fins-seized-mexico-to-hong-kong","22":"tag-shark-fins-seized-us-ports","23":"tag-u-s-fish-and-wildlife-service","24":"tag-u-s-fish-and-wildlife-service-dried-shark-fins-seized","25":"tag-u-s-fish-and-wildlife-service-shark-fins-seized","26":"tag-wildlife"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/400569","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=400569"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/400569\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/400570"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=400569"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=400569"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=400569"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}