Feds Target Companies Involved in U.S. Shark Fin Trade

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A complaint filed in July in Miami federal court accused an exporter based in the Florida Keys, Elite Sky International, of falsely labeling 5,666 pounds of China-bound shark fins as live Florida spiny lobsters to ship abroad. Another company, South Florida-based Aifa Seafood, is under criminal investigation for similar violations. Though federal law makes it illegal to cut the fins off sharks and discard their bodies into the ocean, some states allow fin harvesting from dead sharks at a dock, and they end up in American markets and restaurants. In some states, it's legal to import shark fins....

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