Silkies and tunas (IMAGE)

Save Our Seas Foundation

Silkies and tunas

Caption

A threatened species. The tendency of silky sharks to associate with schools of tuna species and floating objects makes them especially vulnerable to industrial tuna fleets that fish around drifting fish aggregation devices.

Credit

Pelayo Salinas de León

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