Paying $12 million could be the punishment for the owner of the Panamanian licensed TIUNA, for the environmental damaged caused while fishing illegally in the protected waters of Cocos island, where the boat was detained on January 29th 2008.

The Permanent Special Environment Commission of Costa Rica's Congress issued a report yesterday titled: Investigation on Shark Finning in Costa Rica.

Officials of the National Service of Coastguards opened fire to scare away four fishing vessels that suurounded the patrol boat MarViva 1 whilst it confiscated illegal fising lines in protected waters of Cocos Island.

Just when we were thinking it was becoming safe for sharks to be in Australian waters, the Queensland government in an incredible display of ecological insensitivity has proposed a shark fin fishery in the Great Barrier Reef World Heritage Area and in marine parks in Queensland waters.

Knowing what we know, how would you feel if you saw that a major UK retailer was selling Shark Products – in fact Shark Cartilage. Pretty damn angry ? Yep…me too!!

It was confirmed yesterday that a whale had succumbed to a gill net off the North West coast of Guanacaste, Costa Rica.

32 years after Jaws™ showed a defenseless woman being dragged underwater and devoured by an insatiable monster, three women have come together to debunk that fictitious image.

Last March 28 of 2008, the Constitutional Court of Costa Rica accepted a lawsuit suit filed by the local non profit PRETOMA, against the President of the Board of Directors of INCOPESCA, ...

The Sea Shepherd Ship Farley Mowat Has Been Illegally Stormed and the Crew Assaulted.

The shark finning debate makes the news once more in Costa Rica