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Shark meat
Seafood consisting of the flesh of sharks / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Shark meat is a seafood consisting of the flesh of sharks. Several sharks are fished for human consumption, such as porbeagles, shortfin mako shark, requiem shark, and thresher shark, among others.[1] Shark meat is popular in Asia, where it is often consumed dried, smoked, or salted.[2] Shark meat is consumed regularly in Iceland, Japan, Australia, parts of India, parts of Canada, Sri Lanka, areas of Africa, Mexico and Yemen.[2][3]
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Sharks have been eaten at least since the Late Bronze Age (1550-1130 BC), for example in the Levant.[4]