The return of the ID tag and info related to such landings are greatly appreciated by researchers and conservationists who need the fisheries and biological information in order to affect effective protections or certain species (like white sharks) at certain sites and regions critical to these species. The white shark captured off of Baja was an accidental catch by local artisanal fisherman and should not be perceived as same thing as huge open ocean factory fleets and coastal poaching ship that do much harm. An expedition to Isla Guadalupe from Monterey Bay was conducted in 2003 and tissue samples were provided to researchers at Nova Southeastern University and US Fish and Wildlife Service. The Pelagic Shark Research Foundation has been conducting long term monitoring study in California since 1990, in 2001 the PSRF tracked white shark movements from California to the Hawaiian Islands and open ocean, deep sea of central and eastern pacific and beyond in 2003 a shark tagged by PSRF with a satellite transmitter was tracked to Isla Guadalupe. There was a 1000lber caught nearby not long before, the big female carried an ID tag from Monterey Bay and California during late 1990s by Santa Cruz California based Pelagic Shark Research Foundation (PSRF). That shark is way heavier than 1 ton/2000lbs, it's likely twice that weight.
Images are two of one of three that appear on a San Carlos Mexico online forum Related story: Angler lands largest-known yellowfin tuna caught on rod and reel "Even though on March 13 of this year, some of their fellow fishermen had also caught a great white, which had weighed 990 pounds."Īdult 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. "Guadalupe and Baltazar swore they had never seen a fish this big before in their lives," the Pisces blog stated. 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. Also, if it measured 20 feet, it should weigh a lot more than 2,000 pounds. 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. "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. 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. 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.
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