How Large Is the Liver of a Shark?

@browncoat - II'm not a big fan of fishing for sharks, because so many of them are endangered now. But I'd definitely rather that people were eating the whole shark (although not the liver) rather than just the fin. Often people will just slice off the shark's fin and leave it to die, because they get more money for that one part.

And that's not including the people who hunt sharks because they think they are dangerous. There have actually been very few shark attacks recorded and most of the time sharks are harmless to people.

They are such a valuable part of the ecosystem, I would hate for them to become extinct just because we overreact to their presence. It's something we would deeply regret in the future.

@Fa5t3r - Well, I don't know about the liver, but I do know that people eat shark meat probably more often than they realize. It often gets sold in shops as "flake" or some other benign label and will get put into fish fingers and other processed fish products as well.

I don't know why it is so much cheaper than normal kinds of fish, but maybe it's because it doesn't taste as nice and it would otherwise just be a byproduct of a normal catch.

But I imagine they wouldn't sell the liver if it really was that dangerous. I think they do mercury testing to make sure no one is going to get hurt from fish.

I've heard that you've got to be careful not to eat shark liver, because it can be extremely high in mercury and other dangerous substances. Sharks are the top of the food chain in the ocean, of course, so they end up concentrating all of the pollutants from the fish that they eat in their tissues.

And I imagine that the liver is one of the most toxic parts of the body, because it has so much fat in it and fat tends to store chemicals.