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The fight to save the Spurdog Shark

Overfishing prompts anglers to descend upon lochs in a mass effort to tag critically endangered species By Gordon Mack

It is never going to become a cuddly toy like the panda, and it lacks the big cat mystique of the Siberian tiger. But the predatory spurdog, once one of the eastern Atlantic's most prolific small sharks, is equally threatened with extinction in Scottish waters.