50,000 Shark Fins Busted Crossing U.S. Ports
1,600 pounds of shark fins, over $1 million worth, moving through Anchorage, Kentucky, and Ohio in disguised cargo.
USFWS unraveled a coordinated trafficking network through Operation Thunder. Not random smugglers. An organized criminal operation running protected species through multiple ports.
Good bust. Rare case of wildlife enforcement actually working.
A multi-port sting caught a coordinated shark fin trafficking network worth over $1 million, a rare win for wildlife law enforcement that actually matters for protected species.
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