Megamouth shark to more than half the worldwide total. Specimens have also been sighted in or come out of the waters near Hawaii, California, Mexico, Indonesia, Australia, Brazil, Senegal, South Africa, Puerto Rico, Ecuador, and possibly Vietnam. On March 30, 2009, off Burias Island in the Philippines, an 880- to 1,100-pound (400- to 500-kg) megamouth shark died while struggling in a fisherman's net and was subsequently taken to nearby Donsol in Sorsogon province, where it was examined by scientists, before being butchered and sold. On June 12, 2011, a 3-m (10-ft) dead juvenile male was found by fishermen near the western Baja
Fish products Fish products Fish and fish products is consumed as food all over the world. With other seafoods, it provides the world's prime source of high-quality protein;14–16 percent of the animal protein consumed worldwide. Over one billion people rely on fish as their primary source of animal protein. Fish and other aquatic organisms are also processed into various food and non-food products. In Ancient Roman society, garum, a type of fish sauce condiment, was popular. Sharkskin and rayskin which are covered with, in effect, tiny teeth (dermal denticles) were formerly used in the same manner as sandpaper is in the modern