Sentences with phrase «spiny dogfish»

Last spring, 19 members of Congress from the Northeast wrote to the U.S. Department of Agriculture [pdf] asking the agency to buy Atlantic spiny dogfish under the Section 32 program, which buys surplus food and then makes it available to the National School Lunch Program and other federal programs.

Other studies place mercury levels in spiny dogfish somewhere between canned albacore tuna on the low end and Spanish mackerel, swordfish, bluefish and orange roughy on the high end.

We also used to see vast schools of spiny dogfish sharks in the San Juan Islands.

The FDA Monitoring Program data set, which includes only 19 spiny dogfish specimens, puts the average mercury concentration in dogfish over 0.5 parts per million — high enough to result in an advisory for women of reproductive age and children in many states.

At least one study found spiny dogfish had a mean mercury concentration twice that of canned albacore tuna.

In the Atlantic spiny dogfish he tested, Taylor says he found mercury levels «exceeding the EPA action level for mercury in seafood» (0.30 ppm) in more than 50 percent of market - size samples.

In addition to encountering over 50 percent of all the other tagged sand tiger sharks on the East Coast, the sand tigers came in contact with Atlantic sturgeons, white sharks, sand bar and spiny dogfish sharks, and even southern species like the lemon shark and bull shark.

Based on independent researchers» data, average mercury concentrations in spiny dogfish are somewhere between 0.35 ppm and 0.80 ppm.

In the past year, some politicians have begun looking to federal food programs as customers for one of the most abundant and despised species: the Atlantic spiny dogfish.

Still, eels did better than sharks — CITES initially refused to restrict trade in Europe's porbeagle and spiny dogfish, although Europe wants another vote.

Cod dominates in marine environments, but herring, saithe, haddock, spiny dogfish and plaice are also important species.

Her recent publications include works on birds exposed to oil spills, research on sharks and spiny dogfish, and accumulation of rodenticides in red - tailed hawks.

One of our favorite encounters so far this month has been observing a juvenile elephant seal returning from the depths of the Monterey Bay with a tasty small shark called a spiny dogfish.

Seals Pilgrim's age like to hang out in deep - water and forage on bottom - dwelling marine animals such as ratfish, swell sharks, spiny dogfish, eels, rockfish, and squid.

It is believed that they eat deep - water, bottom - dwelling marine animals such as ratfish, swell sharks, spiny dogfish, eels, rockfish, and squid.

Under the Convention on Migratory Species of Wild Animals the hunting, fishing, or deliberate killing of the great white, basking, whale, porbeagle, shortfin and longfin mako sharks, and the spiny dogfish is prohibited.