One of world's rarest sharks caught and eaten

[DeathFox]

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"MANILA (AFP) - - A megamouth shark, one of the world's most elusive species, was caught, carved up and eaten by fishermen from a town in the Philippines, the environmental conservation group WWF said Tuesday.
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So rare are megamouth shark sightings that each find is given a number -- this one, caught by fishermen from the coastal town of Donsol, was only the 41st ever seen or captured in the world.

But Elson Aca, a Donsol WWF representative, said it was butchered and its meat sauteed in coconut milk as a local delicacy, against the organisation's advice.

The four-metre (13-foot), half-tonne (1,100-pound) megamouth was snared by fishermen trawling for mackerel off the Bicol peninsula on Luzon island.

The species, which is named after its metre-wide mouth, is a fairly recent scientific discovery. The first specimen was caught off Oahu, Hawaii in 1976, the WWF said.

The scientific community hailed it as the 20th centurys most significant marine find, it added. Together with the whale shark it is one of only three filter-feeding shark species in the world.

It is classified by the International Union for the Conservation of Nature as "data deficient" because so few have ever been studied.

Ironically Donsol has earned a global reputation for marine conservation, after campaigners convinced the locals to stop butchering giant whale sharks which use the nearby waters to feed.

The town prides itself as the whale shark capital of the world and marine tourism is a key money earner.

The Philippines sits at the apex of a so-called Coral Triangle, considered by experts as a world centre for marine bio-diversity."

LOL, only in the Philippines.

[rambutan]

daghan na gikan sa atoa!!!

dara pa ang uban ai

megamouth number 11

20 February 1998

megamouth number 18
6 January 2003 Tablon, Cagayan de Oro City, Philippines

megamouth number 26
4 November 2004 Barangay Namocon, Tigbauan, Iloilo, Philippines

megamouth number 28
30 January 2005 Macajalar Bay, Cagayan de Oro, Philippines

megamouth number 34
26 January 2006 4 km off Bayawan City, Negros Oriental, Philippines

megamouth number 35
12 March 2006 Barra, Macabalan, Cagayan de Oro City, Philippines

megamouth number 39

29 May 2007 Barangay Tungkob, Minglanilla, Cebu, Philippines

megamouth number 43 - latest
30 March 2009 off eastern coast of Burias Island, Philippines, at ~200 m depth

[unsay_ngalan_nimo]

na gika-on lang.. wala man sad sila kahibaw tingali na rare oi..

[seeteemahsuu]

this incident is even on NatGeo News. i'm just waiting for another foreign journalist/environmentalist to ride on this incident, a la Chip Tao.

MEGAMOUTH SHARK PICTURE: Ultra-Rare Shark Found, Eaten

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[yacky2006]

gi larang na ang uban.... Kulang pa gyud pahibalo sa public unsa ni nga mga isdaa....

[alexaanne]

kaluoy sa shark...

pro hinuon di ta kblame sa mga mangingisda,crisis mn jd ron...mokaon na bisan unsa...and wala baya sila kahibaw na "rare" ni na shark...kasagaran baya nato,kun shark na hisgutan,mahadlok jd ky delikado lage...

kadako oie,1,102-pound (500-kilogram)....
"kinuout" daw ang dish,lami ba kaha ni...hehehhe....mura mn luod ikaon og dako ra kaayo na isda....

[tarantado07]

^^: Sakto jud, wla na sila kbalo nga rare. para sa mga mangingisda jackpot na cguro ng maka dakup ug daku nga isda.

[Motownkid]

kulang jud ug education & information atong mga fisherfolks about aning mga
endangered species.. hasta pawikan ihawon, luto-on, ibaligya sa Pasil init pa kaayo.
so frustrating to hear this kind of news..

[gpcortes07]

kulang jud ug education & information atong mga fisherfolks about aning mga
endangered species.. hasta pawikan ihawon, luto-on, ibaligya sa Pasil init pa kaayo.
so frustrating to hear this kind of news..

sakto ka bro kulang gyud sa information ang ato mga fisherman, usahay tungod nalang sad gyud sad siguro sa need to earn money for there family mao tira bisan unsay madakpan nila bisan kahibalo na bawal ni.

hasta sad ning mga tawo nga sige kaon ug pamalit aning mga shark ug pawikan ma blame sad kay if dili ni nila paliton mawagtangan man sad unta ug interest ang mga fishermen ani.

[peewee_toot]

wala cgro na cla kahibaw nga rare oi. wala pd gni ko kbaw.