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A series of co-ordinated raids have been carried out targeting members of an organised crime group has resulted in seven arrests.
Every year, as many as 73 million sharks lose their fins and die.
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) — It's one of the seafood industry's 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.