Great White Sharks at Risk of Extinction in the Mediterranean, Researchers Say - Commonwealth Union

Great White Sharks at Risk of Extinction in the Mediterranean, Researchers Say - Commonwealth Union

The great white sharks (Carcharodon carcharias) is the largest living macropredatory shark and fish. It is identified as a mackerel shark and closely related to the mako sharks, the porbeagle and the salmon shark. This robustly built species with a grayish upper-side and a white underside, are already a vulnerable population. Now the researchers say that it is of is under threat of regional extinction due to habitat stresses and illicit fishing …