Many Sharks Closer To Extinction Than Feared – Red List.
Updated March 25, 2019
“Our results are alarming,” said Nicholas Dulvy, who chairs the grouping of 174 experts from 55 countries. Along with its longfin cousin, the two makos are highly prized for their flesh and fins, considered a delicacy in Chinese and other Asian culinary traditions. For land animals, conservation biologists focus on population size and geographic range in assessing extinction threat.
“In the Indian Ocean” — along coastlines in the Arabian Sea and the Bay of Bengal — “the tuna fishery is really a shark fishery with tuna by-catch,” Dulvy said. But the top-level predators have proven especially vulnerable to human predation: they grow slowly, become sexually mature relatively late in life, and produce few offspring.
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