Fishermen Catch Great White Shark Lifeguards Say They Stopped Them From Eating It
The juvenile female shark, measuring 2.7 meters long, was trapped in a gill net cast by fishermen off Auckland’s Orewa beach on Thursday, the Department of Conservation (DOC) told New Zealand public radio station RNZ. Clinton Duffy, technical advisor for the DOC marine species team, told RNZ the animal was likely 5 or 6 years old, and was a decade away from reaching maturity. He said the shark had net entanglement marks “all over it,” which likely explain how it died....