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Carved sawfish rostrum on display in Bali, Indonesia. Sawfish are among the world’s most endangered fish. Historical fishing pressures are largely to blame for the dramatic decline in sawfish numbers. Because of their saw-like snout – or ‘rostrum’ – they’re easily caught in gillnets and trawler nets that scour the seafloor where they live. Fishing pressures have been so great that the green sawfish (Pristis zijsron) was last seen in New South Wales in 1972 and is presumed extinct. Many sawfish have nearly all but disappeared from the entire east coast of Australia (with exception to the narrow sawfish).⁵

Although it is now illegal to target sawfish when fishing, many fishers in the past targeted them for their sheer size (up to 7m long!) and to keep their saw as a trophy. Photo: Paul Hilton / Earth Tree Images

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Carved sawfish rostrum on display in Bali, Indonesia. Sawfish are among the world’s most endangered fish. Historical fishing pressures are largely to blame for the dramatic decline in sawfish numbers. Because of their saw-like snout – or ‘rostrum’ – they’re easily caught in gillnets and trawler nets that scour the seafloor where they live. Fishing pressures have been so great that the green sawfish (Pristis zijsron) was last seen in New South Wales in 1972 and is presumed extinct. Many sawfish have nearly all but disappeared from the entire east coast of Australia (with exception to the narrow sawfish).⁵<br /> <br /> Although it is now illegal to target sawfish when fishing, many fishers in the past targeted them for their sheer size (up to 7m long!) and to keep their saw as a trophy. Photo: Paul Hilton / Earth Tree Images