 The meat is sold for human consumption, the skin is made into leather, and the fins are used for shark fin soup in Asia.The squalene oil in the liver of the pelagic thresher can comprise 10% of its weight, and is used in the manufacture of cosmetics, health foods, and high-grade machine oil.Though rarely caught, pelagic threshers are also valued by sport fishers and are listed as game fish by the International Game Fish Association.