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dusky shark

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Noun1.dusky shark - relatively slender blue-grey sharkdusky shark - relatively slender blue-grey shark; nearly worldwide in tropical and temperate waters
requiem shark - any of numerous sharks from small relatively harmless bottom-dwellers to large dangerous oceanic and coastal species
Carcharhinus, genus Carcharhinus - type genus of the Carcharhinidae


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Sandbar, porbeagle and dusky shark populations in the Atlantic and Gulf of Mexico have been severely overfished; a recent article in the Sarasota Herald-Tribune noted that commercial fisheries target sandbar sharks because their dorsal fins command high prices in the shark-fin trade.
Sandbar, porbeagle and dusky shark populations in the Atlantic and Gulf of Mexico have been severely overfished; a recent article in the Sarasota Herald-Tribune noted that commercial fisheries target sandbar sharks because their dorsal fins command high prices in the shark-fin trade.
] (3) Huish and Benedict (1977) published their results under the species name for the dusky shark (Carcharhinus obscurus), but Grubbs (2001) noted that the size of the animals tracked was smaller than the size at birth for C.
 
 
 
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