Ultra-Rare Shark Found, Eaten
In just a short time, one of the rarest sharks in the world went from swimming in Philippine waters to simmering in coconut milk.
The 13-foot-long (4-meter-long) megamouth shark (pictured), caught on March 30 by mackerel fishers off the city of Donsol, was only the 41st megamouth shark ever found, according to WWF-Philippines.
Fishers brought the odd creature—which died during its capture—to local project manager Elson Aca of WWF, an international conservation nonprofit.
Aca immediately identified it as a megamouth shark and encouraged the fishers not to eat it.
But the draw of the delicacy was too great: The 1,102-pound (500-kilogram) shark was butchered for a shark-meat dish called kinuout.
Link and photo via nationalgeographic.com.
The shark was nearly dead from being trapped in the nets anyway and there was no sense in letting all that meat go to waste. Still, it would have been interesting to see what the price of such rare shark meat would have commanded on the open market.
I think that it was to bad that the Shark had to die see late in life know matter what It was very kool that it lived this lnog in life while all the others are dead. well it would be even more exiting if they found other rare ceatures in the deep blue sea’s around the world today