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    Tresher sharks in batangas...public market!

    it seems tresher sharks have been caught and sold in the market by shark traders with a certain bit of regularity. check out these two albums multiply site:

    Cecilia's Site - THRESHER SHARK in Batangas City MARKET

    Cecilia's Site - THE ANATOMY OF A THRESHER SHARK.... in the MARKET

    the second album shows shark fillets. :11:

    anybody know anyone who can do anything about it?

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    Does this mean we name the shark fillets after you?

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    unfortunately, i didnt take the pics. now, if you were to say naming the cheque for the fins...

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    Hi JIGO,

    The Thresher Shark Research and Conservation Group have been studying Pelagic thresher sharks in the Philippines since 2004. We would very much like to contact you in person regarding the photographs you posted of a dead thresher shark in a Batangas. For the past 4 years, we have been working to understand the ecology of this species. Information from you could be very useful to promote thresher shark conservation and awareness.

    If you don't mind, please contact us at: A.J.Beckett.liverpool.ac.uk

    Best Wishes,

    Alison Beckett

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    While I can't speak to the specific conservation issues with threshers in Philippine waters, they were commonly sold in the US even in our tiny Vons grocery store on Catalina Island. In fact, I ate a thresher shark steak several decades ago... but not since then.
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    Quote Originally Posted by drbill View Post
    While I can't speak to the specific conservation issues with threshers in Philippine waters, they were commonly sold in the US even in our tiny Vons grocery store on Catalina Island. In fact, I ate a thresher shark steak several decades ago... but not since then.
    of course drbill you know that you are about to relegated to the status of "whaling thread" with your admission

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    Quote Originally Posted by jigo View Post
    it seems tresher sharks have been caught and sold in the market by shark traders with a certain bit of regularity. check out these two albums multiply site:

    Cecilia's Site - THRESHER SHARK in Batangas City MARKET

    Cecilia's Site - THE ANATOMY OF A THRESHER SHARK.... in the MARKET

    the second album shows shark fillets. :11:

    anybody know anyone who can do anything about it?
    sucks to hear that...

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    Quote Originally Posted by Shark Expeditions View Post
    Hi JIGO,

    The Thresher Shark Research and Conservation Group have been studying Pelagic thresher sharks in the Philippines since 2004. We would very much like to contact you in person regarding the photographs you posted of a dead thresher shark in a Batangas. For the past 4 years, we have been working to understand the ecology of this species. Information from you could be very useful to promote thresher shark conservation and awareness.

    If you don't mind, please contact us at: A.J.Beckett.liverpool.ac.uk

    Best Wishes,

    Alison Beckett
    i didnt take the pics. i just posted a link to the site with the permission of the one who took them and is trying to get the local government to act on it. i suggest you send cecilia a private message via multiply.

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    will do thanks

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