premature birth HELP!

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I'm not gonna rip u up for it...clearly u regret it...plus i'm new here so i can't rlly do that. lol;):grinno: But yes, the best thing is to release those Sharks, especially females. The Piked Dogfish AKA Spurdog, Squalus Acanthius is the most common Shark but most existing specimens are male, making it hard to reproduce. Also inside a mother Shark...at least Sand Tigers... they are half-covered by water, so in a full submerge the TINY change in pressure can make the yolk, maybe, pop.
 
If you are catching sharks for food I don't see how you can avoid gutting them but if you want to keep the babies for an aquarium realistically you would have to keep the female alive in a large aquarium until she gave birth. If you just want to avoid killing the babies then not killing the mother is about the only real way. How big are the adults? I used to catch the occasional shark and steak it up, two or three a year at most, a hundred pound shark goes a long way. To be true it's been a long time since I caught a shark or even fished for them on purpose. I like to eat shark, some of them anyway, many are really not very good to eat. Killing sharks isn't exactly a popular past time for the people on this list as you have found out. It's sad really, commendable that many people who fish are not killing sharks but sad that the real culprit is commercial fishing. They kill millions, our efforts to not kill them will in the long run only make difference to us not the sharks. Unless you really need them for food I would recommend not killing them and going for less pressured prey. Just my take, only you really know how necessary it is to eat them. Once I did have a guy who ran a Chinese restaurant fix me some shark fin soup from a shark I had caught, I didn't like it, don't know why it's so important to take the fins of these animals the flesh is much better. I would like to ask that you not kill sharks unless it really is nesesarry, it's been a long time since I was able to shark fish and knowing what I know now I don't think I would be willing to kill them anymore.
 
Bottomfeeder;2044858; said:
I'm not gonna rip u up for it...clearly u regret it...plus i'm new here so i can't rlly do that. lol;):grinno: But yes, the best thing is to release those Sharks, especially females. The Piked Dogfish AKA Spurdog, Squalus Acanthius is the most common Shark but most existing specimens are male, making it hard to reproduce. Also inside a mother Shark...at least Sand Tigers... they are half-covered by water, so in a full submerge the TINY change in pressure can make the yolk, maybe, pop.
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There is also the change in specific gravity or salinity from inside the mother to sea water. This would have to have a bad effect on the yolk sac.
 
also someone might chime in here...but i think the young pups are isolated from the saltwater in kind of a micro enviornment and are not ####haline (i cant remember the word) but it means not able to excrete the salt from the water yet.

stenohaline
urohaline
.... i dunno...so long from marine bio in college! damn.:irked:
 
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