its range. However, continued monitoring of landing and discarded data is important to avoid any future decline. This species is currently listed as being of least concern on the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species, because there is no evidence to indicate that the global population has declined significantly. Since 2003, there have been yearly releases of these sharks into the Gullmarn fjord in Sweden by the public aquaria Havets Hus in Lysekil. More than 90 sharks have been released since 2003, of which one was found in southern Norway 10 years after its release. This means that these sharks can reach at least an age of 14 years. Human consumption and use S. canicula is currently of low commercial value. In the recent past, it was one of the species sold in English and Scottish fish and chip shops as rock salmon, rock eel, huss or sweet william. In other parts of its range, it is occasionally baked or used in fish soup. Its hard skin has been used as a substitute for pumice, but the fact that catsharks have to be skinned before they can be filleted discourages commercial fishermen from catching this species. See also Greater spotted dogfish References External links small-spotted catshark small-spotted catshark Fish of the East Atlantic Fish of the Mediterranean Sea Marine fauna of North Africa small-spotted catshark