Here is another picture of the huge shark found dead in a net off of the coast of Sonora. What a beautiful fish and what a shame, nevetheless not one scrap went to waste; it fed the whole town.
On Sunday April 15th, two commercial fishermen Guadalupe y
Baltazar, motored out in their panga with its 75 hp outboard motor, from the
Sonoran region, on the mainland side of the Sea of Cortez, known as El Choyudo
to check their nets that they had set the night before. Little did they know
that they were in for the surprise of their lives. As they began to haul their net in, it seemed
much heavier than usual – more than their usual catch of smaller scale fish. “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?” said Guadalupe. They
were in a dilemma; how to get it back to shore? Though they were less than two
miles from the beach, there was no way they could possibly get this monster
into their 22 ft skiff. They thought about it for a few minutes then decided to
tow it to shore and radioed for help. It took an hour to make it back to the
beach where it took fifty people to drag it up onto the sand. The shark was
measured and was just shy of twenty feet long and a record catch for this area,
with it weighing one ton or 2000 lbs. Guadalupe y Baltazar swore they had never seen a
fish this big before in their lives, even though on March 13th of
this year, some of their fellow fishermen had also caught a great white, which
had weighed 450 kg or 990 lbs. They added “we have seen a lot of sharks, in
fact this is an area known for sharks, but we have never seen anything like his”.
Officials from the Environmental Protection Agency (Profepa) are investigating
as this is a protected species and they thought is strange that a fish like
this would be so close to shore
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