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That’s huuuuuuuueg.
I think the ‘line and rod’ the guy used was the boat-mounted type usually set up for Marlins (which are by themselves big fish, but nowhere NEAR that big).
Sad. Those really need to stay in the ocean.
That’s nowhere near as big as they can get. Just the biggest one caught on a rod and reel is all.
fishing for large sharks is a bit like hunting large terrestrial predators. only assholes do it.
Poor jelly faced beastie! Doesn’t look so regal out of the water.
🙁
Makes me think of End of the Line: http://endoftheline.com/
The movie was preachy at times, but explains a lot of the insanity currently going on in our oceans.
how is this still considered acceptable behavior? IS this still considered acceptable behavior?
I didn’t think people in Clare were interesting enough for blood sports.
Why does the ocean hate us so much?
Thanks Paul for giving me a new site to visit whenever I have the hiccups and want to scare the bejeezus out of myself. Thanks a lot.
I hope he ate it. That makes catching it only slightly less repugnant.
Pictures like this are what make me smile just a little on the inside when I hear about shark attacks. As a species, the human race has it coming.
Now off I go to protest the fish-flingers!
Just to double down on the human-stupid, the shark in question looks to me like a basking shark: described by Wikipedia as “a slow-moving and generally harmless filter-feeder.”
It eats plankton, basically. No threat to anything more than a few millimeters wide. And its conservation status is ‘vulnerable.’
Nice going, pole guy.
You can’t eat shark meat.
I think that’s a sixgill shark. It would have bit the line, but is harmless to humans because we aren’t small fish.
Humans kill 70 million sharks a year for their fins. I think it’s hillarious that we are scared of them when they barely kill a couple of people a year.