|Scientific Name:||Isurus oxyrinchus (Atlantic subpopulation)|
|Species Authority:||Rafinesque, 1810| |Red List Category &
Criteria:||Vulnerable A2bd+3bd+4bd ver 3.1|
|Assessor/s:||Cailliet, G.M., Cavanagh, R.D., Kulka, D.W.,
Stevens, J.D., Soldo, A., Clo, S., Macias, D., Baum, J., Kohin,
S., Duarte, A., Holtzhausen, J.A., Acuña, E., Amorim, A. &
Domingo, A.| |Reviewer/s:||Fowler, S.L., Dudley, S., Soldo, A.,
Francis, M. & SSG Pelagic Shark Red List Workshop participants
(Shark Red List Authority)| In the north Atlantic, Shortfin Mako
(Isurus oxyrinchus) have likely undergone a decline in abundance
(estimates based on logbook records ranging between 33 and 50%,
demographic modeling suggesting a decline between 20 and 80%).
In the northeast Atlantic landings data are not available for
some countries, but the species is taken as a bycatch of the
pelagic fishery. The area around the Strait of Gibraltar is
thought to be a nursery area; most specimens caught there are
juveniles. This area is heavily fished by the