Arrests in California Giant Mako Shark Trigger Controversy.

Arrests in California Giant Mako Shark Trigger Controversy.

A group of visitors from Texas caught a potential record setting shark near Huntington Beach. The fisherman, Jason Johnston hopes the 11 feet long, eight feet around and 1,300 pound shortfin mako shark will break a few records. Almost all of the meat from the shark will be donated to the homeless.
 News reported that fishermen caught a giant mako shark off the coast of Southern California earlier this week has invited a wave of protests from conservationists.
They condemned the arrest was due to shark populations are increasingly threatened by excessive hunting worldwide.
Female shark was captured on Monday in Huntington Beach and weighs more than 600 kg. This animal has a length of 3.3 m and has a width of 2.4 m in the central part of the body, said Kent Williams, a certified fishing from California and owner of New Fishall temple, where the shark was kept in the cooler.
Jason Johnston, of Mesquite, Texas, caught the big fish after fighting for two and a half hours, reports the Orange County Register.
If the catch was confirmed and qualified, then it would exceed the record of catching mako weighing 553 kg in July 2001 off the coast of Chatham, Mass., says Jack Vitek, one of the world records body coordinator for the International Game Fish Association, based in Florida.
It takes about two months for it to verify the association of domestic catches, he told the Los Angeles Times.Untuk this time, Williams save the shark in the storage unit air-cooled, put the metal wheel barrel by 3 x 5 feet, was so great, the tail and head The shark does not fit. Rows of sharp teeth fill the mouth plated shark, half-frozen on Wednesday.
A rope was wrapped around the dorsal fin. Under state law, anglers can take two sharks each time sailing, although the catch is very rare.
A total of 99 out of 100 people who like shark fishing is not going to be defeated him. There are few animals like this are caught every year, but every time one was arrested, people will exaggerate.
The callers are angry even contacted the office of the Australian-owned fishing Williams to protest that he was there to save sharks.
The Sharks should have been released, said David McGuire, director of the advocacy group Shark Stewards protection based in California. "People need to see these sharks as beautiful animals that have an important role in the ocean and admiring how beautiful they," said McGuire told the Times.
But in general that every angler has a chance to break the world record, I am not going to release the fish, said Williams. "I do not care what they say. If they have the potential to break the world record, they will also take the fish - if they could."
Only 23 of the 6,850 world record that was recorded in association fishing catch weighing more than 589 kg, Vitek said. The catch is the biggest great white shark weighing 1200 kg were caught in 1959 off the coast of Australia. "Seeing more than 450 kg of fish - be it sharks, tuna, or marlin - is very rare," said Vitek.
Shark was suggested to be donated for research purposes.
Southern California is considered a comfortable habitat for mako sharks.
But the fish are caught usually have a length between 76 cm to 180 cm, said Nick Wegner, fisheries biologist at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography in San Diego. "Finding the size of a shark is rare," he said.

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