Massive dead Great White shark caught in Sea of Cortez, Mexico

Apr 17, 2012

A great white shark measuring nearly 20 feet and weighing 2,000 pounds — according to a local report — was hauled up Sunday by commercial fishermen in the Sea of Cortez near Guaymas.
 
The massive predator was dead when it was brought to the surface in a net deployed by fishermen named Guadalupe and Baltazar, who were treated to the surprise of a lifetime when they saw what they had captured.

“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 Sportfishing, which is located in the resort city of Cabo San Lucas.

There is some dispute about the size. If, in fact, it measured six meters (19.8 feet), as Milenio News reported, it’d be one of the longest white sharks ever recorded. Also, if it measured 20 feet, it should weigh a lot more than 2,000 pounds.

Monster: The fish, found dead, was just 2ft shorter than the boat it was caught in requiring its tow to shore where it was reported to have fed the entire town

Regardless, it’s a humongous specimen. The fishermen, who were aboard a 22-foot skiff, towed the behemoth two miles to the beach, where dozens of people helped drag it onto dry sand.

Adult white sharks were once believed to be rare in the Sea of Cortez, or Gulf of California, but scientists now believe parts of the gulf serve as a nursery for the species.

– Images are two of one of three that appear on a San Carlos Mexico

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The news on MSNBC today said that they ate the shark, hope it didn’t die from radiation ???

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Some thoughts from other fishermen about this find :

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