The following numbers come from Instituto National de Pesca, Ecuador. These are the official reported numbers of shark Landings for June.The actual numbers are much higher and do not reflect illegal shark fining where the carcass is dumped.
June 2008 :
Pelagic Thresher : 281,9 tons (t).
Silky Shark : 74,8 t .
Blue Shark : 53,7 t .
Smooth Hammerhead : 25,7 t .
Scalloped Hammerhead : 10,8 t .
Shortfin Mako : 3,0 t .
Carcharhinus spp : 0,5 t .
Thresher (Alopias spp): 0,2 t .
Brown Smoothhound : 0,1 t .
Bigeye Thresher : 0,1 t .
TOTAL : 450,8 t in the month of June 2008
Ref. : Instituto National de Pesca.
One country. One month. One total. 901,600 pounds of sharks.
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