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n. - Pacific shark valued for its appendages (used by Chinese in stew) and liver (rich in vitamin A).

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  • Four blue sharks and two soupfin sharks were fitted with satellite transmitters to provide information on their wanderings.
  • COSEWIC also lists the short-fin mako as threatened in the Atlantic, and three as species of special concern - sixgill and soupfin (tope) sharks in the Pacific, and...
  • Sixgill sharks, 1,227 Pacific sleeper sharks and 1,068 blue sharks, the others listed as mackerel, salmon, soupfin, requiem, brown cat, and even one endangered basking...
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