Who has the right of it?
Well, all of them – in a way at least! To understand this, we first need to accept that there are no truly reliable figures here. All of this is based on numbers published by the (FAO = Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations) in their annual fishing statistics. Up to 700,000 tons of shark are brought to land each year according to these statistics. At an average weight of 15 kg for a caught shark, this would amount to about 50 million animals. The FAO collets these figures from the affiliated fishing nations.