Record 580kg Hammerhead Shark caught off Florida.

[ed316]

http://media.theaustralian.news.com.au/20060525-shark_player.htm

[Macs.]

Why doesn't it wonder me that this video is hosted on a site called "The Australian" ?

TYPICAL.

[Chuckie]

Here's the article.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060525/ap_on_sc/hammerhead_record


Hey wait a minute, I think Hellfish works or is affiliated with the place that has this shark.

Hellfish, please get some pics of this beast!

Here's one but it's all covered up:

http://us.news3.yimg.com/us.i2.yimg.com/p/ap/20060525/capt.299d59e8099e42698cdb88adf8e6a1c6.large_hammerhead_shark_wxs108.jpg

[EasyC]

Why doesn't it wonder me that this video is hosted on a site called "The Australian" ?

TYPICAL.

The Australian is a newspaper you silly bastard

[Macs.]

The Australian is a newspaper you silly bastard

A nation full of Newspapers ? :roll:

[oswald]

Yup. That's where HF is. Maybe he's getting pics right now :)

[MrScruff]

Dennis, who was using 130-pound test line, and three friends fought the 14 1/2 foot shark for five hours and it dragged his boat about 12 miles offshore before they got it aboard.
"It's fun hooking them, but if you get too close, they will bite," Dennis said. "And whatever they bite, they will bite off."

It's kinda like Jaws in real life, except I don't think that shark has been eating little kids. What a ****, I hope he gets eaten next time.

[EasyC]

A nation full of Newspapers ? :roll:

*sigh*....yes macs

[FozzieBear]

would much rather have seen it still swimming around hunting fish, but nice catch nonetheless :)

[titget]

Yup. That's where HF is. Maybe he's getting pics right now :)


Hellfish is in Ecuador( for work I think) getting drunk and laid right now till the 14th.:)

[pegasus]

yeah they couldnt just let the poor bugger go after! hope they fall overboard next time & get ate!! we have enough with the japs & chinese eating & killing every animal they can.

[Secret Squirrel]

Record hammerhead shark was pregnant with 55 pups

Associated Press
Jun. 30, 2006 11:40 AM


BOCA GRANDE, Fla. - The likely world-record hammerhead shark caught in May weighed 1,280 pounds because it was pregnant with 55 pups - the most scientists have ever seen.

Scientists at Mote Marine Laboratory, where the shark was taken for a necropsy, said Thursday that 52 were nearly full-term and just a few days from birth. The shark was estimated to be between 40 and 50 years old.

Scientists previously believed that hammerhead sharks gave birth to 20 to 40 pups at a time.

"Although we are thankful that the fisherman gave this unique specimen to Mote, and we are learning a lot about this species from this large female shark, we were saddened to see so many unborn pups inside her so close to birth," said Dr. Robert Hueter, director of Mote's Center for Shark Research.

The shark was caught off Boca Grande on May 23.

Whether the 14.5-foot shark is a record catch on rod and reel is still being decided. The International Game Fish Association expects a decision in late July.

link (http://www.azcentral.com/offbeat/articles/0630BigShark30-ON.html)

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[Crankep]

Heh, I thought she looked pregnant..

[Hellfish]

Damned shame. Sport fishermen are actually vital to the survival of the oceans, believe it or not. At least in the US waters they are. Fishermen greatly outnumber the environmentalists who want to save our seas but both have common goals - to ensure the continued health of the oceans and oceanic species. Someday these two groups will figure out they have more in common than not and group together to save the oceans.

But as Pegasus said - Japanese and Chinese fishing vessels (usually unregistered and conducting illegal fishing) are largely to blame for the current devastation of the world's fish stocks. And now with the ban on whale hunting lifted because of some idiotic Japanese sense of tradition...

[scrybe]

It's the same way with deer and elk hunting in the NW. It is so rediculously researched and monitored that the environmentalists really shouldn't have any concerns.

[ed316]

Don't forget the Salmon. I miss Hood River BTW.