Shortfin makos are the fastest sharks in the sea, but they're failing to outpace the scale of overfishing that is driving them to extinction. Global demand for their meat and lucrative fins has placed ...

New research reveals that despite decades of overfishing, shortfin mako sharks in the Atlantic still have relatively high ...

The shortfin mako shark is on the brink of extinction due to overfishing, yet genetic analysis reveals that Atlantic ...

Shortfin mako sharks are built for speed ... They are a highly valuable shark on the international market, and have declined rapidly due to overfishing ...

The finding is nearly a year late. “The federal government has ignored the shortfin mako shark’s steep population decline in the North Atlantic, and scientists expect that the shark’s numbers will get ...

Makos in the western North Atlantic are highly migratory ... Parasitic copepods cling to the fin of a shortfin mako. They feed on different parts of the shark’s body, eating everything from ...

“The shortfin mako shark is the world’s fastest-swimming shark ... Overfishing has resulted in steep population declines in the Atlantic Ocean and slightly more moderate declines in the North Pacific ...

Among other things, Dodd’s Atlantic Shark Institute deploys 20 anchored ... around a third of them. Like the shortfin mako – I call it the Ferrari of the ocean; it’ll do 45 miles per hour.

The situation for shortfin mako sharks in the Atlantic Ocean is particularly dire ... He goes on to caution, "Typically, in most of the exploited shark species we study we see pretty low diversity." ...