Critically endangered wedgefish tracked off west coastBy Yang Yuan-ting and Hollie Younger / Staff reporter, with staff writerResearchers used satellites to track five critically endangered Taiwanese wedgefish, identifying the waters off the west coast and Penghu County as key habitats essential to its survival, the Fisheries Research Institute said today. The wedgefish (Rhynchobatus immaculatus) is a shark-like ray that is listed as critically endangered on the International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources’ Red List of Threatened Species. It was named an endemic species to Taiwan in 2013 and lives in shallow coastal and continental shelf waters off the west coast. A Taiwanese wedgefish is pictured in an undated photograph. The Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora included all species of wedgefish in its list of trade controls in 2019.

Source: Taipei Times February 09, 2026 06:43 UTC