New records of neonate and juvenile sharks (Heptranchias perlo, Squatina aculeata, Etmopterus spinax) from the North-eastern Mediterranean Sea

Abstract

Three species of neonate and juvenile sharks (Heptranchias perlo, Squatina aculeata, Etmopterus spinax) were captured as by-catch from a commercial trawl fishing from depths between 360 and 430 m in the North-eastern Mediterranean Sea. Two neonates of H. perlo, five neonates of E. spinax and one juvenile of S. aculeata were for the first time identified in the above region.