106 Commercial Shark Fishing in the Caribbean Area 



reputed to be widespread throughout the West Indian-Caribbean 

 region, one is to be expected anywhere there off the open coast 

 at any time, though few such events have been recorded. To the 

 north, a few specimens have been taken off the Atlantic coast of 

 the United States as far as Maine and occasionally even Nova 



Scotia and the Banks south of Newfoundland. 



It is known as far south as southern Brazil. 



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