Fishermen had a good time off the coast of Hawaii in March, thanks to a pair of international teams working to catch a 120-pound oceanic whitetip shark.
The massive shark was netted at a distance of 10 miles off the coast of Hawaii's Kaena Point. Just south of Kaena, the Pacific Missile Range Facility's Sand Island facility tests land-based missiles. The post-shark-netting photo shoot on Sand Island, along with footage released by the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Fisheries, indicate that a few sharks made it through the nets to give fishermen a taste of shark meat.
According to the video's narrator, the shark's dorsal fin can be seen in the background of the scene.
"You may also be able to see the shark's snout, as it gets into the water," the narrator says.
The tracking from the ground and the real-time tracking from a drone enabled researchers to determine that the shark was a 120-pounder, which would be among the largest sharks spotted off Hawaii in several years.
A 120-pound shark would be about the same size as a Great White.
While encounters between human beings and sharks can be dangerous, the post-shark-fishing photos released by NOAA do not indicate any injuries.
"This is just a rare opportunity to observe a very large shark," Steve Schofield, a NOAA fisheries biologist, said in the NOAA video description. "It is also good for us to be able to get a feel for how different equipment works at sea."
Also in March, another whitetip shark was spotted in the same spot in the video, weighing in at 160 pounds. The sighting also marks the second time in about a year that a whitetip shark has been sighted in the area, according to NWHI.
The video was released during NOAA's monthly Southwest Fisheries Science Center shark sightings report, which can be found on NOAA's website.Q:
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