Japanese boat owners charged with helping smuggle shark fins 0 SHARES Share it! Share TweetBy the Associated PressHONOLULU (AP) — U.S. prosecutors in Hawaii are accusing the owners and officers of a Japanese fishing boat of helping Indonesian fishermen smuggle nearly 1,000 shark fins, worth about $58,000 on the black market. They were headed home via Honolulu when airport security workers found shark fins in their luggage, according to court documents. A Hamada representative in Japan said Friday that the Indonesian crew members had shark fins without the captain’s knowledge. They are not to be used to smuggle shark fins,” said a man who answered the phone at Hamada Suisan in Kagoshima, Japan, who declined to provide his name.

Source: Manila Bulletin December 14, 2018 22:52 UTC