Do Scalloped Hammerheads have any monetary value?
Scalloped Hammerheads are commercially valued for their meat – which is used fresh, smoked, dried, and salted – as well as for their fins, hides, and liver oil. Their jaws, teeth, and backbones are often sold as curios. But Scalloped Hammerheads need not be killed to have value: in places such as San Salvador, Borneo, the Galapagos, Cocos Island, and the Sea of Cortez, schools of these sharks attract thousands of diving tourists each year, injecting millions of much-needed dollars into the local economy.
