Karachi: A very rare fish recently caught by fishermen off the coast of Gwadar in Balochistan was sold for Rs26,000, World Wide Fund for Nature-Pakistan (WWF-P) officials said on Monday. The 10-foot-long largetooth sawfish weighing around 26 kilograms was caught in the Sur Bandar area of Gwadar district. Listed as critically endangered by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN), sawfish is also included in Appendix 1 of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES), which prohibits trade in those species. “Sawfish is closely related to sharks that have a commercial...
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