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Posts tagged silky shark

DNA Barcoding Reveals If Meat of a Shark or Ray is From a Threatened Species

In Brazil, the largest shark meat importer worldwide, sharks and rays are traded as “cação” making it difficult to monitor what species are actually being traded…

All Posts, News, ScienceChris HebelOctober 27, 2020sandtiger shark, scalloped hammerhead shark, silky shark, smooth hammerhead, angular angel shark

The Shark Callers of Papua New Guinea

For the past six months I have been living with Shark Callers on the tropical island of New Ireland, five hundred miles east of mainland Papua New Guinea.