NOUN
- large pelagic shark of warm seas with a whiplike tail used to round up small fish on which to feed
How To Use thresher shark In A Sentence
- Populations of thresher sharks are down by 80 per cent and great whites by 79%.
- Peering through my viewfinder, I could scarcely believe what I was seeing, because the pelagic thresher shark is extremely rare.
- Many shark species, including makos, blue sharks and thresher sharks, swim in and out of New England waters each year, according to Massachusetts' Division of Marine Fisheries.
- There is not much water movement here and it makes a good second dive, or so I thought until I saw the unmistakable shape of a thresher shark pass below me.
- Fisherman Tony Talbot got the shock of his life when a pulled up a 4ft thresher shark on to his boat as he was trying to catch bass.
- Caught in a gill net in the Gulf of California, this thresher shark is among the estimated 100m sharks killed annually for their fins.
- I just commented on one of the photos of a guy in another gallery with a record thresher shark. A Big Croc of...
- In the last few years, 55, 000 reptile skins from India, 19, 000 big-eye thresher shark fins in Ecuador and 23 metric tonnes of pangolin in Asia have all been seized.
- Dr Ken Collins of Southampton Oceanography Centre added: ‘I know of a Isle of Wight fisherman who managed to catch a 340 lb big eye thresher shark.’
- One enduring memory of this wreck was that of a 4m thresher shark lazily cruising the 10m contour above us as we ascended.
