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Giant Shark, thought extinct is caught in Pakistan

9-23-14

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This beast measured 10.4 meters and weighed 15.6 tons which makes it the largest shark ever caught, and it is not an adult...

sea creature that measures an incredible 10.4 meters and weighs an astounding 15.6 tons is the largest living shark ever caught to date, great white sharks reaching an impressive 7 tons at full growth, a size that is no match for this giant prehistoric shark that can reach an imposing 20 meters in length and possibly weight up to 30 tons, depending on estimates. - See more at: http://worldnewsdailyreport.com/15-ton-prehistoric-shark-captured-off-coast-of-pakistan/#sthash.koi46A3d.dpuf

he sea creature that measures an incredible 10.4 meters and weighs an astounding 15.6 tons is the largest living shark ever caught to date, great white sharks reaching an impressive 7 tons at full growth, a size that is no match for this giant prehistoric shark that can reach an imposing 20 meters in length and possibly weight up to 30 tons, depending on estimates. - See more at: http://worldnewsdailyreport.com/15-ton-prehistoric-shark-captured-off-coast-of-pakistan/#sthash.koi46A3d.dpuf

he sea creature that measures an incredible 10.4 meters and weighs an astounding 15.6 tons is the largest living shark ever caught to date, great white sharks reaching an impressive 7 tons at full growth, a size that is no match for this giant prehistoric shark that can reach an imposing 20 meters in length and possibly weight up to 30 tons, depending on estimates. - See more at: http://worldnewsdailyreport.com/15-ton-prehistoric-shark-captured-off-coast-of-pakistan/#sthash.koi46A3d.dpuf

I so want this

Aquari-bed

As Long as You Keep it Under 88

 Gonna Need a Bigger Boat

June 10 2013, Jason Johnson a Texas angler brought what could be a World Record Mako shark off the coast of California. Weighing an unofficial 1323.5 pounds and measuring 11 feet in length and 8 feet in girth it could break the 12 year IGFA all-tackle record of 1,221 pounds.  

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  From August 2012, A woman entered in the The Big Island Invitational Marlin Tournament with $9,000 in prize winnings and caught the big one; a record. But she had help bringing it in, at the 4 hour mark the fish had died and she had to accept help from the crew to land the Marlin disqualifying her from the winners purse. With no judges around to verify whether she brought the fish to the gunwhale unassisted, she had the option of claiming the catch was solo, and instead announced she would not be accepting the winnings on account of breaking the tournament rules. 

 I'm glad such sportsmanship still exists, doubly so that it is repeatedly shown throughout the sport of fishing.

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Oddity

 Along with a handful of other fish, the flesh of the Salema porgy can sometimes inflict ichthyosarcotoxism on those who eat it, which is a very rare form of poisoning caused by the toxins of a tiny species of marine plankton called Gambierdiscus toxicus.

 This poisoning from contaminated fish flesh prompts intense hallucinations and terrifying nightmares that can last for several days. As reported by Luc de Haro and Philip Pommier from the Centre Antipoison of the Hôpital Salvator in Marseille, France, in a 2006 issue of Clinical Toxicology, a 90-year-old man ate a Salema porgy in Saint Tropez in 2002 and two hours later was hallucinating and having nightmares about people and birds screaming, which lasted a further two nights. He literally thought he was losing his mind. “Fearing that these symptoms might signal the beginning of a major mental illness, he did not tell his friends or attend a physician. The manifestations abated three days after he had eaten the fish,” de Haro and Pommier report. 

 Prior to that, a 40-year-old man also fell victim to ichthyosarcotoxism while holidaying in the French Riviera and had hallucinations of screaming animals and giant, menacing spiders surrounding his car. In 2009, a fisherman named Andy Giles caught one in the English Channel, which is unusual because they usually keep to warm waters of the Mediterranean and African west coast, and told the Daily Telegraph, “Now I realize what it was and the effects it can have, perhaps I should have taken it into town to sell to some clubbers!”

 Every time a story like this pops up I am relieved there exist no poisonous or venomous freshwater fish native to NA, however if this wasn't the case the sport could become far more interesting.