Definitions
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- noun The
school shark
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- noun Pacific shark valued for its fins (used by Chinese in soup) and liver (rich in vitamin A)
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Examples
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Four blue sharks and two soupfin sharks were fitted with satellite transmitters to provide information on their wanderings.
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COSEWIC also lists the short-fin mako as threatened in the Atlantic, and three as species of special concern - sixgill and soupfin (tope) sharks in the Pacific, and basking sharks and blue sharks in the Atlantic.
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Four blue sharks and two soupfin sharks were fitted with satellite transmitters to provide information on their wanderings.
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COSEWIC also lists the short-fin mako as threatened in the Atlantic, and three as species of special concern - sixgill and soupfin (tope) sharks in the Pacific, and basking sharks and blue sharks in the Atlantic.
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