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- noun
Squalus , a genus ofdogfish sharks .
Etymologies
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Coal fish (Pollachius virens; new ecords of spawning fish), Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar), spurdog (Squalus acanthias)
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The United States also supported protections for a number of sharks; the Oceanic whitetip, dusky, sandbar, spurdog, porbeagle and scalloped, smooth and great hammerheads.
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The United States also supported protections for a number of sharks; the Oceanic whitetip, dusky, sandbar, spurdog, porbeagle and scalloped, smooth and great hammerheads.
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The United States also supported protections for a number of sharks; the Oceanic whitetip, dusky, sandbar, spurdog, porbeagle and scalloped, smooth and great hammerheads.
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"Ending fisheries for critically endangered porbeagle and spurdog will allow European populations to recover while enhancing the EU's ability to promote conservation of the species on a global scale," said Fordham.
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Describing the Council's decision to end all fishing for porbeagle sharks and reduce by 90% fishing quotas for spurdog as "a solid performance on the first big test of the new EU Action Plan for Sharks,"
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As a result, some of these beautiful species are threatened with extinction, such as the spurdog we see here.
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In the case of the spurdog - a species of dogfish shark - gestation is two years, the longest of any animal.
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But fishing for endangered porbeagle and spurdog sharks will be banned.
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Properly called the spiny dogfish or spurdog (Squalus acanthias), the chippy's favoured shark is more usually labelled as rock salmon.
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