There is an image or two to help with identification of sawfishes, here:
http://www.dulvy.com/global-sawfish-conservation-strategy.html
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Sorry Nick, not clear to what region are you referring to... In Mexico, there has been a lack of records for many years, possibly decades, but i am about to dig information on the species. I'll let you know what I find, and will probably ask you for help. We need to launch a recovery plan for sawfishes in Mexico.
No specific records from Brunei to my knowledge but Mabel Manjaji-Matsumoto and Annie Lim would probably be the best to ask
IF anyone is keen to develop a national conservation strategy for sawfishes, please feel free to use and translate our report. Also w.r.t sawfishes in Mexico, see this reference:
del Monte-Luna P, Castro-Aguirre JL, Brooke BW, de la Cruz-Aguero J, Cruz-Escalona VH. 2009. Putative extinction of two sawfish species in Mexico and the United States. Neotropical Ichthyology 7: 509-512.
We do get it in India especially in the states of Gujarat and Maharashtra i.e. the North West coast of India. The quantum of the catch has no doubt gone down . You have not specified the region in your question. Would you specify the same ?
We do have a photographic record from about ten years ago at Chetumal Bay, Mexico-Belize
Juan. Is that only one record in 10 years? Could you please share the record with me? I would really appreciate that.
I and colleagues recently published a paper about past fisheries and extinction test of Pristis pristis in Abrolhos Bank, eastern Brazil.
Giglio V.J., Luiz O.J., Gerhardinger, L.C. Depletion of marine megafauna and shifting baselines among artisanal fishers in eastern Brazil. Animal Conservation. In press
The early view version is available on my profile.
Based on information from fishers, a few years ago sometimes they caught Pristis spp from Papua, eastern Indonesia.
In Bangladesh, Saw shark has not been recorded for the last 5-6 years in most of the shark landing centers, it is assumed that this species has been found to be declined in the Bay of Bengal region of the country.
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