The plastic was wrapped around her gills and was cutting through her skin and into her muscles.
Instead, they found something much worse than they expected.Sulikowski and members of the Maine-based Sulikowski Shark and Fish Research Lab were able to get a shark to follow their chum line to the bait. They reeled it in to secure it alongside their boat so they could begin the sampling procedure.They'd landed a 7-foot porbeagle shark with a strip of plastic lodged around her neck.James Sulikowski and his team found this porbeagle shark with a piece of plastic lodged around its gills.
After the research team collected some samples, they attached a satellite tag to the shark's dorsal fin and released her, hoping to track her recovery."Given the nature of her injury and her fortitude to not give up, we have named her Destiny because she is definitely a survivor!," the research team wrote on Facebook.Chomp! Shark bite mystery solved 25 years later thanks to DNA Porbeagle sharks can live up to 65 years, according to Oceana. The largest ever recorded was 11.
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