Shark meat

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Shark meat is a seafood consisting of the flesh of sharks. Several sharks are fished for human consumption, such as porbeagles, dogfish sharks, requiem shark, and salmon sharks, among others. Shark meat is popular in Asia, where it is often consumed dried, smoked, or salted. The largest consumer of shark meat in the world is Brazil, but it is also consumed regularly in Iceland, Japan, Australia, parts of India, parts of Canada, the United States, Sri Lanka, areas of Africa, Mexico and Yemen. China is a large consumer of shark meat and are primary contributors to loss of shark populations in the pacific. Sharks have been eaten at least since the Late Bronze Age (1550–1130 BC), for example in the Levant.

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