These sharks are critically endangered not only in the Mediterranean but also globally. The research team tagged the mako shark during a research expedition for the white shark in the region.

About 30 countries back the three proposals concerning species of mako shark and a range of critically endangered ray species in the guitarfish and wedgefish families Sharks have stalked the ...

WASHINGTON— The highly imperiled shortfin mako shark was denied federal protection today by NOAA Fisheries, which stated that a listing under the federal Endangered Species Act is “not warranted.” In ...

Taiwan’s Fisheries Research Institute (FRI), in collaboration with local and Japanese universities, presented its findings on the behavioral characteristics and thermoregulation mechanisms of the ...

WASHINGTON— Defenders of Wildlife and the Center for Biological Diversity sent a notice today of their intent to sue the National Marine Fisheries Service for failing to protect the shortfin mako ...

Once the shark was landed, Grey marveled at its build—streamlined, muscular, with a head like a bullet. “I had never seen its like,” he wrote. “Every line of this mako showed speed and ...

and the longfin mako are among the shark species being caught in large numbers in the North Atlantic, according to Greenpeace. Both species are listed as “endangered” by the International ...

Western civilisation developed around these shores but now human activity is having a profound effect on this endangered sea ... competition from blue and mako sharks. Importance: This site ...