Sawfish conservation through collaboration.

The Sawfish Conservation Society’s mission is to connect the world to advance global sawfish education, research, and conservation. The SCS is a group of researchers, aquarists, managers, fishers, and enthusiasts that came together to rescue sawfishes from extinction.

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The SCS Small Research Grant for 2025 will be opening soon! Check back here on April 1, 2025 to send in your RFP. More details coming soon.

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About Sawfish

Learn all you need to know about the five species of sawfishes.

Learn about sawfish!

International Sawfish Day

Celebrate International Sawfish Day with these shirts, resources, and more!

Celebrate!
 

Sawfish Identification Guides

Download our multilingual identification guides.

See ID guides
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Report a Saw

See a sawfish saw? Learn how to report it to help sawfish researchers.

Report a saw
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Report a Sawfish

Learn what to do if you catch or see a sawfish.

Report a sawfish
 

The sawfish family (Pristidae) is divided into two genera (Anoxypristis and Pristis) and five species (Anoxypristis cuspidata, Pristis zijsron, Pristis clavata, Pristis pectinata and Pristis pristis).

Sawfishes have greatly decreased in number in the last century, due in part to habitat modification and mortality from fishing (mostly through bycatch).

Follow our journey.