Frontiers | Molecular identification of shark meat sold in Ecuadorian markets labelled under different names Shark populations worldwide are declining rapidly, primarily due to overfishing, habitat degradation, and mislabeling of seafood products, which exacerbates ...

Feb. 2026 study in Frontiers in Marine Science showing that neary half of the "corvina" for sale in markets of #Ecuador was actually mislabeled #shark meat. Some of it was from IUCN red list species like #silkyshark and #smoothhammerhead

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