From the National Oceanic Atmospheric Administration's
Highly Migratory Species Division:
Click here for a pdf of a shark identification placard available for download on the HMS Management Division's web site.
Or find the placard on this page from the division's web site:
http://www.nmfs.noaa.gov/sfa/hms/hmsdocument_files/sharks.htm
This placard was developed to allow accurate identification of Atlantic sharks for compliance with new management measures to the Atlantic shark fishery that went into effect on July 24, 2008.
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