Spiny dogfish

 

Sea Zone | Spiny dogfish | Spiny dogfish are caught for food in Europe, the United States, Canada, New Zealand and Chile. The meat is consumed primarily in England, France, the Benelux countries and Germany. The fins and tails are processed and used to find needles in less expensive versions of shark fin soup in Chinese cuisine.  

In England and other spiny dogfish are found in fish and chip shops as "rock salmon" or "Huss" sold in France it is sold as a "little salmon" (saumonette) and in Belgium and Germany it is sold as "eel" (zeepaling and eel, respectively). It is also used as fertilizer, animal feed and cod liver oil, and because of its availability, chondrocranium and manageable size, a popular vertebrate dissection specimen, both in high schools and universities.

 

In the recent past in the European market for dogfish has increased enormously, leading to overfishing and loss of species. This drastic increase in the creation and implementation out of many fisheries management policy restrictions on the fishing of spiny dogfish. However, since the type is a late maturing fish, it takes a while to build up the population again.

In 2010, Greenpeace International, the spiny dogfish, taken to its seafood red list. "The Greenpeace International Seafood Red list is a list of fish that are commonly sold in supermarkets all over the world, and a very high risk, have moved from unsustainable fisheries."