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5 Things You Didn’t Know About Sawfish?

Ocean Conservancy

The rostrum has small pores (sensory organs) that can detect electric fields produced by prey. Endangered Species Act (ESA) in 2003. Once detected, sawfish enjoy eating fish and crustaceans and use their rostrums to dig them up out of the sand or as weapons to knock them out. Sawfish can reproduce without sex.

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The U.S. Has Spent More Than $2 Billion on a Plan to Save Salmon. The Fish Are Vanishing Anyway.

Circle of Blue

The dams meet nearly 40% of today’s regional electricity needs. The upper Columbia River spring Chinook and Snake River sockeye populations are listed as endangered under the 1973 Endangered Species Act. The pacts between sovereign nations did not stop the U.S. But they decimated wild salmon.

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