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Lamna nasus
Porbeagle Shark · (Bonnaterre, 1788)
- Red List, global
- VU
- Vulnerable, 2019
- First CITES listing
- III
- Appendix III, 2012, by Belgium
- CITES trade records
- 78
- 2012–2023 · exporter-reported
- Unit dimensions
- 2
- reported separately, never summed
- NAMMCO catch entries
- none
- NAMMCO reports a subset of marine mammals
- Seizure records
- 3
- reported taxon matches
One of 43: each square a species, coloured by its latest global Red List category, this one ringed. Porbeagle Shark is among the sharks.
In summary derived
Lamna nasus, Porbeagle Shark, is placed in family Lamnidae, order Lamniformes, class Chondrichthyes. It was first listed in Appendix III in 2012, by Belgium. The earliest CITES listing row the corpus holds for it is Appendix II, dated 2013, a later entry than the 2012 listing. The corpus records 2 dated listing rows in total.
Its latest global Red List assessment is Vulnerable, published 2019. It carries 2 earlier global assessments on the current scale and 1 on a scale that was superseded before the current categories and cannot be compared with them.
The corpus holds 78 exporter-reported CITES trade records for it, from 2012 to 2023, reported across 2 unit dimensions. The most frequently recorded term is fins: 37 records across 2 unit dimensions, of which 27 are measured in specimens. The corpus holds no NAMMCO catch records for it. 3 seizure records are attributed to it, being those whose reported taxon matches the species.
Composed from 18 corpus fields, by template, with no model
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Each sentence is generated from the columns above and nothing else. The same corpus produces the same text every time. Where a field is absent the sentence is omitted rather than hedged.
Overview curated
Taxonomy entered by a named curator and versioned in the repository.
- Class
- Chondrichthyes
- Order
- Lamniformes
- Family
- Lamnidae
- First CITES listing
- 20122 listing rows; later ones are amendments
- Global Red List status
- VUVulnerable, assessed 2019
- Class: CITES reports Elasmobranchii; this site uses Chondrichthyes. CITES reports the subclass Elasmobranchii in its class field; Chondrichthyes is the class rank.
A single status for this species does not describe them: Mediterranean subpopulation, Northeast Atlantic subpopulation, Northwest Atlantic subpopulation, Southern Hemisphere subpopulation.
8 narrative sections for this species were machine-drafted and are not shown. No subject expert has reviewed and signed them.
Trade derived
CITES Trade Database v2025.1, extracted 13 June 2025.
Quantities are reported per unit dimension, per traded term, and per reporting side. These are not additive: kilograms and individual animals have no common unit, a live animal is not a carving, and an importer report and an exporter report are two accounts of one shipment rather than two shipments.
Figures below are exporter-reported.
- count in specimens
- 60 records, 77%
- mass in kg
- 18 records, 23%
Records per dimension. Not additive across units.
Trade over time
count measured in specimens
60 of 78 records carry a quantity in specimens. CITES leaves the unit blank to mean a count of the term.
| Term | Quantity | Records | Years | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| specimens | 20,413 specimens | 21 | 2017– | W |
| fins | 36 specimens | 15 | 2015– | W |
| fins | 22 specimens | 12 | 2013– | O |
| bodies | 10 specimens | 5 | 2016 | W |
| bones | 45 specimens | 4 | 2020 | W |
| specimens | 1 specimen | 1 | 2012 | O |
| bones | 1 specimen | 1 | 2016 | O |
| skulls | 1 specimen | 1 | 2021 | W |
mass measured in kg
18 of 78 records carry a quantity in kg.
| Term | Quantity | Records | Years | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| meat | 1,940.64 kg | 7 | 2014– | W |
| fins | 685.54 kg | 6 | 2013– | W |
| fins | 3,621.6 kg | 4 | 2014– | O |
| fin (dried) | 290 kg | 1 | 2023 | W |
CITES listings curated
CoP decisions, cross-checked against the appendix reported on trade records.
First listed on 2012-09-25, in Appendix III by Belgium, from the CITES listing history. The table below holds the species' current listing entries, which begin later; earlier coverage is often under a higher taxon.
| Date | Appendix | Annotation | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2013-06-12 | II | none | earliest current entry |
| 2014-09-14 | II | Listing adopted at CoP16 in March 2013 with entry into effect delayed by 18 months. Appendix III listing still applies until 14/09/2024. | amendment |
Convention on Migratory Species
Listed under CMS: Appendix II. Also covered by Sharks, which are separate instruments with their own annexes.
IUCN Red List derived
Assessment history. Scope is always stated: a regional assessment is not the species status.
Categories from before 2001 come from earlier Red List systems. Three kinds are kept apart.
LR/lc and LR/nt are the modern LC and NT under their old names, so they are plotted as those categories and the line runs through them: nothing changed but the wording.
LR/cd was discontinued with no successor. This project reads it as Near Threatened, following a published crosswalk between the old and new Red List systems, and the chart marks such a point hollow and names both codes, because placing a category is not the same as finding it published.
The pre-1994 codes (E, V, K, T and the rest) are not on the risk order at all, so they sit below the axis and the line breaks across them. A category change across a criteria revision is not a change in extinction risk, and none of these is scored as a movement: the ledger refuses every one of them at gate 3.
- published global assessment
- regional assessment, never joined
Category movement since listing: not scored. Gate 1: only one global assessment has been published since the listing, so there is no second one to measure a movement against. How this is defined and why some species are not scored
| Year | Category | Meaning | Scope | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | VU | Vulnerable | Global | current for this scope |
| 2016 | CR | Critically Endangered | Mediterranean (scope corrected) | |
| 2015 | CR | Critically Endangered | Europe (scope corrected) | |
| 2006 | VU | Vulnerable | Global | |
| 2000 | LR/nt | Lower Risk, near threatened (1994 system) | Global | |
| 1996 | VU | Vulnerable | Global |
Reported catch derived
NAMMCO catch exports dated 11 June 2025. A reported zero is stored as zero, distinct from an unknown.
No NAMMCO catch records for this species. NAMMCO reports on a subset of marine mammals, so an absence here is expected for most species and does not mean no catch occurred.
Illegal trade seizures derived
Seizure records whose reported taxon resolves to this species.
3 seizure records name this species. Matching is on the taxon the source reported, case aside, and each record below shows the reported name, so a match that is not literal can be seen for what it is. Across the whole compilation, 225 of 919 rows match one of the 43 species and the rest name other taxa.
Quantities are unitless. The source gives no date or place, so the table shows the product and the reported taxon.
| Product | Reported as |
|---|---|
| dead animal | Lamna nasus |
| specimen | Lamna nasus |
| specimen | lamna nasus |
References withheld
Machine-proposed bindings. Shown only where an expert has signed the profile and the binding is live.
No references are recorded for this species: none is shown, and none was machine-proposed for review.
Timeline curated
Curated events. Those with no corroborating table in this database are marked.
| Date | Event | Type | Corroboration |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-01-10 | CITES Trade Suspension | cites_suspension | curated |
| 2019-08-13 | CITES Trade Suspension | cites_suspension | curated |
| 2019-06-15 | CITES Trade: specimens | cites_trade | checked against cites_trade_records |
| 2019 | IUCN Red List Assessment (2019) | iucn_assessment | checked against iucn_assessments |
| 2018-06-15 | CITES Trade: fins | cites_trade | checked against cites_trade_records |
| 2017-06-21 | EU Decision: Negative | eu_decision | curated |
| 2016 | IUCN Red List Assessment (2016) | iucn_assessment | checked against iucn_assessments |
| 2015 | IUCN Red List Assessment (2015) | iucn_assessment | checked against iucn_assessments |
| 2014-09-14 | Listed in CITES Appendix II | cites_listing | checked against cites_listings |
| 2013-06-12 | Listed in CITES Appendix II | cites_listing | checked against cites_listings |
| 2006 | IUCN Red List Assessment (2006) | iucn_assessment | checked against iucn_assessments |
| 2000 | IUCN Red List Assessment (2000) | iucn_assessment | checked against iucn_assessments |
| 1996 | IUCN Red List Assessment (1996) | iucn_assessment | checked against iucn_assessments |
Events marked curated are not matched by a row in a corroborating table, either because none applies or because the table holds no such row, and rest on the curator alone. They are shown, and marked, rather than presented as equivalent to a table-checked fact.