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porbeagle
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porbeagle: see mako mako , heavy-bodied, fast-swimming shark, genus Isurus, highly prized as a game fish. Also known as the sharp-nosed mackerel shark, it is a member of the mackerel shark family, which also includes the great white shark and the porbeagle.
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porbeagle
any of several voracious sharks of the genus Lamna, esp L. nasus, of northern seas: family Isuridae


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A dedicated specialist, fishing the entire season for both inshore and far-offshore pelagic migrants, could catch up to 12 species of sharks in our waters, including brown sharks, porbeagles (which look much like makos but fight sluggishly), and sand sharks, our third most common shark after smooth and spiny dogfish.
Tony Asiamah, who runs Seaview Fisheries, said: "We usually get porbeagles two or three times a year.
Sweltering weather had tempted the porbeagles from deeper waters, and local anglers were flocking to catch them.
 
 
 
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