Great white Traps Itself in Fishing Net
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LOS ANGELES — A great white shark, one of the few known man-eating sharks, swam into a commercial fishing net in Southern California’s coastal waters, a television station reported Saturday.
Reports of a great white sighting Thursday off the Balboa Peninsula led Orange County authorities to evacuate about 2,000 swimmers along a 5 1/2-mile shore at Newport Beach. The beaches were reopened Friday.
The 13-foot, 1,500-pound shark was displayed when the vessel docked Saturday at Terminal Island in Los Angeles Harbor.
Anthony Tibich, skipper of the Aggressor, had ventured out Friday on an overnight trip to San Clemente Island in search of commercially marketable shark, according to a report by KNBC-TV in Burbank.
But the skipper was surprised to find that the huge and dangerous shark, known to attack surfers and swimmers, had become tangled in the fishing net Friday morning, the report said.
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