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Witness tells Senate panel sawfish endangered but recovering

Robert Hueter with the Mote Marine Laboratory Center for Shark Research tells a Senate panel that sawfish used to be abundant along the Atlantic and Gulf coasts in the 1930s and 1940s, but were severely not adapted to the new gill net fishing techniques of the time, which reduced their population to a fraction of what they once were, stating that they were one of the first fish to be put on the endangered species watch list, though their population has been slowly making a rebound.
Robert Hueter with the Mote Marine Laboratory Center for Shark Research tells a Senate panel that sawfish used to be abundant along the Atlantic and Gulf coasts in the 1930s and 1940s, but were severely not adapted to the new gill net fishing techniques of the time, which reduced their population to a fraction of what they once were, stating that they were one of the first fish to be put on the endangered species watch list, though their population has been slowly making a rebound.
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July 18, 2018
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