: any of a family (Pristidae) of large elongate rays that resemble sharks but have a long flattened snout with a row of serrate structures along each edge and that live in tropical and subtropical shallow seas and in or near the mouths of rivers
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As of Friday, the official number of dead sawfish in the Keys since Jan. 29 is 38, according to Florida’s fish and wildlife commission, known as the FWC.
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David Goodhue, Miami Herald, 12 Apr. 2024
Some sawfish, too, have been spotted spinning before dying.
—Jen Christensen, CNN, 12 Apr. 2024
Additional sawfish tissues are still being processed for analysis, according to the FWC, which sent 52 fish, including and 12 smalltooth sawfish to University of South Alabama for analyses.
—Julia Jacobo, ABC News, 29 Mar. 2024
Biologists with multiple agencies and universities are investigating if the deaths of the sawfish are related to the broader fish kill.
—David Goodhue, Miami Herald, 28 Mar. 2024
Researchers found a population of small tooth sawfish in Florida that’s just barely hanging on, Feldheim said.
—Evan Bush, NBC News, 29 Feb. 2024
However, sharks and other elasmobranchs—a group of cartilaginous fish including rays, skates and sawfish—are very sensitive to electric fields.
—Margaret Osborne, Smithsonian Magazine, 1 Dec. 2023
Coupled with other recent developments, this find has raised scientists’ hopes for sawfish recovery.
—Carlyn Kranking, Smithsonian Magazine, 17 July 2023
The tag will record the sawfish’s movements for the next decade and will be used a part of wide-ranging partnership to monitor sawfish populations.
—Warren Kulo | Wkulo@al.com, al, 11 July 2023
David Goodhue, Miami Herald, 12 Apr. 2024
Some sawfish, too, have been spotted spinning before dying.
—Jen Christensen, CNN, 12 Apr. 2024
Additional sawfish tissues are still being processed for analysis, according to the FWC, which sent 52 fish, including and 12 smalltooth sawfish to University of South Alabama for analyses.
—Julia Jacobo, ABC News, 29 Mar. 2024
Biologists with multiple agencies and universities are investigating if the deaths of the sawfish are related to the broader fish kill.
—David Goodhue, Miami Herald, 28 Mar. 2024
Researchers found a population of small tooth sawfish in Florida that’s just barely hanging on, Feldheim said.
—Evan Bush, NBC News, 29 Feb. 2024
However, sharks and other elasmobranchs—a group of cartilaginous fish including rays, skates and sawfish—are very sensitive to electric fields.
—Margaret Osborne, Smithsonian Magazine, 1 Dec. 2023
Coupled with other recent developments, this find has raised scientists’ hopes for sawfish recovery.
—Carlyn Kranking, Smithsonian Magazine, 17 July 2023
The tag will record the sawfish’s movements for the next decade and will be used a part of wide-ranging partnership to monitor sawfish populations.
—Warren Kulo | Wkulo@al.com, al, 11 July 2023
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sawfish
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saw·fish
ˈsȯ-ˌfish 
: any of several mostly tropical rays that resemble sharks but have a long flat snout with sharp toothlike structures along both edges
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