Japanese fishermen catch a one-ton megamouth shark

It was a massive catch by fishermen of a Japanese village when they caught an extremely rare species of shark known as deepwater shark. The five-metre megamouth shark was snared into fishing nets five kilometres from the Owase Port in Mie Prefecture, Central Japan.
This has been reported in dailymail.co.uk dated 16 April 2016.

The shark weighed nearly one ton and it has been bought by a local fish monger and shipped outside the prefecture. These megamouth sharks have been spotted hardly 60 times since they were discovered in 1976 and most of them have been found in Japan, the Philippines and Taiwan. The first confirmed sighting was in 1976, when a deep-sea anchor accidentally caught one off the coast of Hawaii.
Incidentally, these species can reach to a maximum length of five metres and are believed to be having a life span of up to 100 years. Moreover, they can descend to a depth of 160 metres under water during the day before rising to 12 metres during the night to feed. They usually swim with their huge mouths open so as to feed on plankton and other food.


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