On Friday, fishermen near the Pakistan-Iran Taftan border came across something that both shocked and amazed them. Trapped in a bottom-set gillnet, a fishing net that catches fish from the bed of the sea, was a longcomb sawfish – a species almost extinct in Pakistan. “The sawfish has been seen in the area after almost 30 years,” said Ghulam Nabi a fisherman in Balochistan’s Jiwani. There was a time when these fish dominated the shark species, but with to the introduction of motorized fishing vessels and nylon nets, their population decreased rapidly. Today, sawfish are almost extinct. The sawfish is regarded as a distinct and unique species because of its long, narrow, and f.
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