A great white shark nearly 20 feet long and weighing 2,000 pounds
was reportedly hooked by commercial fishermen in the Sea of Cortez in
northwestern Mexico.
The massive catch, according to local reports, would
be one of the longest great white sharks ever recorded if verified at a
length 19.8 feet, or 6 meters.
The shark, which was dead when it was brought to the surface, was
netted by fishermen named Guadalupe and Baltazar, according to reports.
"We were amazed and immediately realized that we had a huge, dead,
great white shark, and then we thought 'what are we going to do?'"
Guadalupe told Pisces Sport fishing in Cabo San Lucas.
The fishermen towed the shark's carcass 2 miles to the beach while
aboard their 22-foot-long ship. Dozens of people then helped drag the
animal onto the sand.
Two
fishermen in the area known as The Choyudo, a tiny fishing village
surrounded by the waters of the Sea of Cortez, Sonora, on Sunday took
the surprise of their lives to capture a great white shark weighing
about a ton.Guadalupe Baltazar came early in his panga, a boat with a motor of 75 horsepower, to catch species of scale.When
they began to review noted that the network was too heavy for them was
unusual and that's when they realized that they had caught a great
white shark."We
were impressed immediately noticed that the animal was already dead,
anyway check and then we thought what we were doing," said Guadalupe.They say they were very close to the beach, three kilometers and then decided to pull his little boat."It took us an hour to reach the coast, there fellow joined us and then we started out," he said.
Two fishermen in the area known as The Choyudo, a tiny fishing village surrounded by the waters of the Sea of Cortez, Sonora, on Sunday took the surprise of their lives to capture a great white shark weighing about a ton.Guadalupe Baltazar came early in his panga, a boat with a motor of 75 horsepower, to catch species of scale.When they began to review noted that the network was too heavy for them was unusual and that's when they realized that they had caught a great white shark."We were impressed immediately noticed that the animal was already dead, anyway check and then we thought what we were doing," said Guadalupe.They say they were very close to the beach, three kilometers and then decided to pull his little boat."It took us an hour to reach the coast, there fellow joined us and then we started out," he said.
The great white, six feet long, even in death meant a challenge for fishermen. It was with the help of 50 people who, after five hours, they managed to put it on the ground. People in disbelief, approached the animal to take pictures and take video, Baltazar said.The fishing community is 85 miles west of the state capital. There, take kind of flake, crab traps capture and, in season, they dive to take lobsters.Guadalupe Baltazar say that never in his life had seen an animal of that size. They confessed that on March 13 some friends took a white shark, but about four meters and about 450 pounds."We've seen a lot of sharks, in fact here is a tiburonera area, but an animal of that size, ever," he repeated in amazement.In the Port Authority of Kino Bay, 25 kilometers south of where the shark was taken, Cuauhtemoc Estrada, navigation official said they had no previous reports of the capture of an animal of this kind.For its part, the delegation of the Federal Environmental Protection (Profepa), which was confirmed on Monday when they learned of the specimen of the species caught Carchadoron carcharias in the community in the municipality of Hermosillo."Supposedly became entangled in a net near the beach, but we just investigated," said referring to is a protected species.Sergio Luviano, deputy of Natural Resources, said that social networks had learned that supposedly captured the white shark, which apparently was already dead.The official confirmed that the pictures belong to that species be protected endangered species, like sea turtles or ironwood tree."We will investigate the conditions under which the shark was caught," he said Luviano, and reported that the white shark is "very strange" in the area, as it has sighted only five years in the Gulf of California Sea of Cortez."The white shark is an endangered species and is protected by the authorities," the official Profepa.While acknowledging that in the rare sight of the gulf is an animal of that magnitude, said there are reports of white sharks smaller than three or four meters."Not a normal business, it is curious that the animal was so close to the beach," he said.
Two fishermen in the area known as The Choyudo, a tiny fishing village surrounded by the waters of the Sea of Cortez, Sonora, on Sunday took the surprise of their lives to capture a great white shark weighing about a ton.Guadalupe Baltazar came early in his panga, a boat with a motor of 75 horsepower, to catch species of scale.When they began to review noted that the network was too heavy for them was unusual and that's when they realized that they had caught a great white shark."We were impressed immediately noticed that the animal was already dead, anyway check and then we thought what we were doing," said Guadalupe.They say they were very close to the beach, three kilometers and then decided to pull his little boat."It took us an hour to reach the coast, there fellow joined us and then we started out," he said.
The great white, six feet long, even in death meant a challenge for fishermen. It was with the help of 50 people who, after five hours, they managed to put it on the ground. People in disbelief, approached the animal to take pictures and take video, Baltazar said.The fishing community is 85 miles west of the state capital. There, take kind of flake, crab traps capture and, in season, they dive to take lobsters.Guadalupe Baltazar say that never in his life had seen an animal of that size. They confessed that on March 13 some friends took a white shark, but about four meters and about 450 pounds."We've seen a lot of sharks, in fact here is a tiburonera area, but an animal of that size, ever," he repeated in amazement.In the Port Authority of Kino Bay, 25 kilometers south of where the shark was taken, Cuauhtemoc Estrada, navigation official said they had no previous reports of the capture of an animal of this kind.For its part, the delegation of the Federal Environmental Protection (Profepa), which was confirmed on Monday when they learned of the specimen of the species caught Carchadoron carcharias in the community in the municipality of Hermosillo."Supposedly became entangled in a net near the beach, but we just investigated," said referring to is a protected species.Sergio Luviano, deputy of Natural Resources, said that social networks had learned that supposedly captured the white shark, which apparently was already dead.The official confirmed that the pictures belong to that species be protected endangered species, like sea turtles or ironwood tree."We will investigate the conditions under which the shark was caught," he said Luviano, and reported that the white shark is "very strange" in the area, as it has sighted only five years in the Gulf of California Sea of Cortez."The white shark is an endangered species and is protected by the authorities," the official Profepa.While acknowledging that in the rare sight of the gulf is an animal of that magnitude, said there are reports of white sharks smaller than three or four meters."Not a normal business, it is curious that the animal was so close to the beach," he said.