The
smooth-hound bignose shark guitarfish stingray eagle ray and cownose ray are some of the cartilaginous fish that live in the northeastern Mediterranean and are occasionally found in the nets of fishermen.
Species associated with the use of small mesh gillnets (i.e., with highest scores on the first component) was represented mainly by narrownose
smooth-hound shark and whitemouth croaker.
A
smooth-hound shark swims under an oil rig in the northern Gulf of Mexico.
A 3ft
smooth-hound shark emerged from the murky depths and writhed in the water, desperately trying to avoid the net.
Common
smooth-hound sharks can measure more than a metre in length and are found in the Atlantic Ocean, around the British Isles and in the Mediterranean.
Her stepson Ollie, 13, won a boat rod in 2004 with a fine 16lb 6oz 4dms
smooth-hound. Now stepson Craig, 16, is in the frame with a merit award for a 22lb cod, the best of six caught by 70 anglers in a Lymington Sea Fishing Club boat competition.
The sight of 100 starry
smooth-hound sharks - which had come in from the sea to eat crabs - unleashed a Twitter feeding frenzy as one woman warned of a SHARK INVASION close to a popular beach.
The common and starry
smooth-hound sharks - named "hound" because they group in numbers like a pack of dogs - are regularly found throughout Liverpool Bay and New Brighton is a popular pupping ground.
A
smooth-hound of 5lb 14oz on day one got him off to a flying start, and its virtual twin on day two gave him a winning total of 11lb 8oz, ahead of young Jamie Bell who scaled 9lb 3oz.
CHANNEL CATCH: Penarth's Kevin Todd, now living in Rumney, caught this 22lb
smooth-hound off charter boat Predator in the Bristol Channel.
He caught a fine 15lb 6oz 4dms
smooth-hound in the Solent and set a record in the family's favourite club, Lymington and District SFC.
THESE are the grim remains of butchered
smooth-hound sharks - whose meat could end up being served in fish and chip shops.