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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.

MIAMI (AP) — Its one of the seafood industrys most gruesome hunts.

Some U.S. companies are using a patchwork of state and federal laws to supply fins, a practice activists compare to the now-illegal elephant ivory trade.

Every year, the fins of as many as 73 million sharks are sliced from the backs of the majestic sea predators, their bleeding bodies sometimes dumped back into the ocean where they are left to die.

A spate of recent criminal indictments highlights how U.S. companies, taking advantage of a patchwork of laws, are supplying a market for shark fins.

Every year, the fins of as many as 73 million sharks are sliced from the backs of the majestic sea predators.

Some U.S. companies are using a patchwork of state and federal laws to supply fins, a practice activists compare to the now-illegal elephant ivory trade.

Some U.S. companies are using a patchwork of state and federal laws to supply fins, a practice activists compare to the now-illegal elephant ivory trade.

Every year, the fins of as many as 73 million sharks are sliced from the backs of the majestic sea predators, their bleeding bodies sometimes dumped back into the ocean where they are left to suffocate or die of blood loss.

Every year, the fins of as many as 73 million sharks are sliced from the backs of sharks. A spate of recent criminal indictments highlights how U.S. companies, taking advantage of a patchwork of federal and state laws related to shark fins.