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Now this makes me mad Fishermen kill 1,063-Pound Mako Shark this makes me MAD. why kill the shark? i am not for banning too many things but i would support a full ban on killing for sport sharks, or most non-food game fish. it is stupid and pointless.
http://apnews.myway.com/a...L7PG0.html DESTIN, Fla. (AP) - A 1,063-pound mako shark hooked close to shore in the Gulf of Mexico is being investigated as a possible world fishing record. The Sea Ya Later II was cobia fishing when its crew spotted the 12-foot 6-inch shark Wednesday afternoon between Pensacola Beach and Navarre Beach. The Mother Lode, a 45-foot charter boat, helped bring in the shark. They used flying gaffs to secure the fish and then tied the gaffs to the Sea Ya Later II, which was tilting. "If (the shark) hadn't been as tired as she was, this boat would be sitting on the bottom of the Gulf of Mexico," said Lindsey Stanley, the Sea Ya Later IIs captain, told the Northwest Florida Daily News. After the shark died, it took eight men to pull it aboard the Mother Lode and take it to Destin. The registered weight of 1,063 pounds makes the catch eligible for the world record in the 30-pound line class for a short-fin mako. The class record is a 997-pound, 11-ounce shark caught in Sydney, Australia, in 1995. The largest mako recorded in the all-tackle division was a 1,221 pounder caught in Massachusetts in 2001. "I'm investigating it as a world record," said Jim Roberson, who represents the Panhandle for the International Game Fish Association. | |
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SlamGlam said: this makes me MAD. why kill the shark? i am not for banning too many things but i would support a full ban on killing for sport sharks, or most non-food game fish. it is stupid and pointless.
http://apnews.myway.com/a...L7PG0.html DESTIN, Fla. (AP) - A 1,063-pound mako shark hooked close to shore in the Gulf of Mexico is being investigated as a possible world fishing record. The Sea Ya Later II was cobia fishing when its crew spotted the 12-foot 6-inch shark Wednesday afternoon between Pensacola Beach and Navarre Beach. The Mother Lode, a 45-foot charter boat, helped bring in the shark. They used flying gaffs to secure the fish and then tied the gaffs to the Sea Ya Later II, which was tilting. "If (the shark) hadn't been as tired as she was, this boat would be sitting on the bottom of the Gulf of Mexico," said Lindsey Stanley, the Sea Ya Later IIs captain, told the Northwest Florida Daily News. After the shark died, it took eight men to pull it aboard the Mother Lode and take it to Destin. The registered weight of 1,063 pounds makes the catch eligible for the world record in the 30-pound line class for a short-fin mako. The class record is a 997-pound, 11-ounce shark caught in Sydney, Australia, in 1995. The largest mako recorded in the all-tackle division was a 1,221 pounder caught in Massachusetts in 2001. "I'm investigating it as a world record," said Jim Roberson, who represents the Panhandle for the International Game Fish Association.  good lord. i actually agree with you. imo hunting for food is one thing, but sport hunting, trophy hunting should be banned. | |
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XxAxX said: good lord. i actually agree with you. imo hunting for food is one thing, but sport hunting, trophy hunting should be banned.sharks are amazing animals i have swam and sucb dove with them many times (not makos, but tiger and hammerheads as well as other smaller reef sharks). same goes with marlin and sail fish ... all most all if not all of the mounting places have the forms and they do not even want or need the fish to make a trophy. my dad used to own a fishing boat (as in a charter boat for sail and marlin and they always did catch and release, take a photo, set her free. but the good news is more and more charter boats are doing that as are tournaments) | |
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