(Editors note: This is not a complete list) Name: Angular angel shark (Squatina guggenheim). Status: endangered. Where: western South Atlantic coastal waters from Southern Brazil to Northern Argentina. Reasons: bycatch by gillnet and bottom trawling fisheries. Name: Barndoor skate (Raja laevis). Status: endangered. Where: northwest Atlantic. Reasons: overfishing. Other: has been extirpated from large parts of its range in Canadian Atlantic and New England coastal waters Name: Basking shark (Cetorhinus maximus). Status: endangered. Where: Atlantic, Pacific, Australian and New Zealand coastal waters. Reasons: overfishing, bycatch. Other: some local populations have declined up to 80 percent. Name: Borneo shark (Carcharhinus borneensis). Status: critically endangered or already extinct. Reasons: overfishing. Where: Pacific Asian coastal waters. Name: Common sawfish (Pristis pristis). Status: critically endangered or already extinct. Reasons: bycatch. Where: Atlantic, Mediterranean and Black Seas. Other: once common in the Mediterranean and eastern Atlantic, but is now extirpated from Europe waters and the Mediterranean along with all other sawfishes. Name: Dusky shark (Carcharhinus obscurus). Status: endangered. Where: coastal waters worldwide. Reasons: overfishing. Name: Freshwater sawfish, Great-tooth sawfish (Pristis microdon ). Status: critically endangered. Where: Indian Ocean and west Pacific coasts, lagoons and estuaries; freshwater lakes, ponds, rivers and streams. Reasons: overfishing, habitat loss and degradation. Name: Ganges shark (Glyphis gangeticus). Status: critically endangered. Where: Ganges-Hooghly river system, India and Pakistan. Name: Great white shark (Carcharodon carcharias). Status: endangered. Where: worldwide. Name: Green sawfish (Pristis zijsron). Status: endangered. Where: Indian and west Pacific coastal waters and lower reaches of rivers. Reasons: overfishing, bycatch. Name: Grey nurse shark (Carcharodon carcharias). Status: critically endangered. Where: Australia. Reasons: overfishing. Name: Largetooth sawfish (Pristis perotteti). Status: critically endangered. Where: Indian Ocean and west Pacific coasts, lagoons and estuaries; freshwater lakes, ponds, rivers and streams. Reasons: overfishing, bycatch, habitat loss and degradation. Name: Night shark (Carcharhinus signatus). Status: endangered. Reasons: overfishing. Name: Pincushion ray (Urogymnus ukpam). Status: endangered. Where: coasts, lagoons and estuaries, and freshwater lakes, ponds, rivers and streams of Congo, Gabon, and Nigeria. Name: Sandbar shark (Carcharhinus plumbeus). Status: critically endangered. Where: worldwide. Reasons: overfishing. Other: western Atlantic population has been reduced by 85-90% in just ten years by overfishing. Name: Sand tiger shark (Carcharias taurus). Status: endangered. Where: Australia. Reasons: overfishing. Name: Silver shark (Balantiocheilos melanopterus). Status: endangered. Where: Indonesia, Malaysia, and Thailand. Reasons: overfishing. Other: a freshwater shark. Name: Smalltooth sawfish, Wide sawfish (Pristis pectinata). Status: critically endangered. Where: Atlantic Ocean, Mediterranean and Black Sea coasts, lagoons, and estuaries, and freshwater lakes, ponds, rivers and streams. Reasons: overfishing and loss of habitat. Other: wholly or nearly extirpated from large areas of its former range in the North Atlantic (Mediterranean, US Atlantic and Gulf of Mexico) and Southwest Atlantic coast. Name: Smoothback angel shark (Squatina occulta). Status: endangered. Where: western south Atlantic shelf waters (Brazil to Uruaguay. Reasons: bycatch by gillnet and bottom trawling fisheries. Name: Speartooth shark (Glyphis glyphis). Status: endangered. Where: Indo-Pacific coastal waters. Reasons: development, overfishing and habitat destruction. Name: Spiny dogfish (Squalus acanthias). Status: endangered. Where: temperate oceans worldwide. Reasons: overfishing. Name: Whale shark (Rhincodon typus). Status: endangered. Reasons: overfishing. Name: Whitefin topeshark (Hemitriakis leucoperiptera). Status: endangered. Where: Philippine coastal waters. Reasons: overfishing. |