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Blue Shark Pictures Showing Fishing, Finning, and Death by Nets and Long Lining |
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The blue shark, Prionace glauca, is listed as "Near Threatened" by the World Conservation Union (IUCN).
Blue sharks are the most heavily fished sharks in the world, with estimates that between ten and twenty million are slaughtered every year. They are caught for their fins for shark fin soup, as “game” fish, and are frequently killed in incidental catch by commercial swordfish and tuna fisheries. Their flesh is not usually used for food, but turned into fishmeal, the liver for oil, and the skin for leather.
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Picture of shark fin stew or soup, made of juvenile blue shark fins, Prionace glauca, one of the most expensive Chinese cuisine, Tokyo, Japan
Picture #: 013852 |
Stock photo of a dead blue shark, Prionace glauca, cauight in drift gill net, Southern California
Picture #: 021147 |
Image of shark fins, caudal fins of blue shark, Prionace glauca - Kesennuma is the producing center of shark fin in Japan, Miyagi prefecture, Japan
Picture #: 077198 |
Photo of a blue shark, Prionace glauca, with jaw injury from longliner, and underwater photographer, Rhode Island, USA, Atlantic Ocean
Picture #: 011284 |
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Picture of blue shark, Prionace glauca, unborn pups, expelled from uterus of freshly butchered female blue shark, Isla Magdalena, Baja, Mexico, Pacific
Picture #: 076790 |
Stock photo of blue shark, Prionace glauca, has remnants of fishing net cutting into it, California, Pacific
Picture #: 076754 |
Image of a fisherman collecting fins from freshly butchered catch of blue sharks, Prionace glauca, and mako sharks, Isurus oxyrinchus, Magdalena Bay, Baja, Mexico, Pacific
Picture #: 076825 |
Photo of blue shark, Prionace glauca, unborn pups, expelled from uterus of freshly butchered female blue shark, Isla Magdalena, Baja, Mexico, Pacific
Picture #: 076974 |
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Picture of a woman eating shark fin stew or soup, made of juvenile blue shark fins, Prionace glauca, one of the most expensive Chinese cuisine, Tokyo, Japan
Picture #: 013853 |
Stock photo of head of butchered blue shark, Prionace glauca, and unborn shark pups expelled from uterus, Isla Magdalena, Baja, Mexico, Pacific
Picture #: 076979 |
Image of a blue shark, Prionace glauca, with fish hook through mouth, California, Pacific
Picture #: 076871 |
Photo of dead blue sharks, Prionace glauca, Manta, Ecuador
Picture #: 044215 |
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Picture of a dead blue shark, Prionace glauca, offshore commercial longline shark fishing, Brazil, Atlantic Ocean
Picture #: 106120 |
Stock photo of blue shark, Prionace glauca, caught in net, California, Pacific
Picture #: 076866 |
Image of head of freshly butchered blue shark, Prionace glauca, Isla Magdalena, Baja, Mexico, Pacific
Picture #: 076989 |
Photo of a blue shark, Prionace glauca, killed by drift net, California, Pacific
Picture #: 077055 |
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Picture of unborn blue shark pups, Prionace glauca, expelled from uterus of butchered female Mexican shark fishery, Isla Magdalena, Baja, Mexico, Pacific
Picture #: 076988 |
Stock photo of shark fin stew or soup, made of juvenile blue shark fins, Prionace glauca, one of the most expensive Chinese cuisine, Tokyo, Japan
Picture #: 013855 |
Image of a blue shark, Prionace glauca, with mouth damaged by fishing gear, California, Pacific
Picture #: 077063 |
Photo of dead blue shark, Prionace glauca - Kesennuma is the producing center of shark fin in Japan, Miyagi prefecture, Japan
Picture #: 078421 |
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