Publicação: The fishing and illegal trade of the angelshark: DNA barcoding against misleading identifications
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Elsevier B.V.
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Morphological identification in the field can be extremely difficult considering fragmentation of species for trade or high similarity between congeneric species. In this context, the shark group belonging to the genus Squatina is composed of three species distributed in the southern part of the western Atlantic. These three species are classified in the IUCN Red List as endangered, and they are currently protected under Brazilian law, which prohibits fishing and trade. Molecular genetic tools are now used for practical taxonomic identification, particularly in cases where morphological observation is prevented, e.g., during fish processing. Consequently, DNA barcoding was used in the present study to track potential crimes against the landing and trade of endangered species along the Sao Paulo coastline, in particular Squatina guggenheim (n = 75) and S. occulta (n = 5), as well as the Brazilian guitarfish Pseudobatos horkelii (n = 5). DNA barcoding revealed the continuous fishing and trafficking of these protected species, thus giving clear evidence that the current conservation models and methods of monitoring are not working.
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Conservation, Endangered species, Fishing monitoring, Forensic genetics, Mislabeling identification
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Fisheries Research. Amsterdam: Elsevier Science Bv, v. 206, p. 193-197, 2018.
