The IUCN/SSC Shark Specialist Group
Shark News 8: December 1996
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New Record of Pregnant White Shark, Kenya
A 21 foot long pregnant white shark was netted 5 miles off Malindi, Kenya,
in early August. The female was carrying five young when cut up and sold.
It was too large to weigh intact, but was estimated at some 5,000 lb (the
head and pectoral fin alone was 1,000 lb, and the liver about 400 lb).
A plaster cast of the head will be put on display at Hemingways
Hotel, Watamu. Two smaller white sharks were landed in the
previous fishing season - all were taken by commercial fishermen.
Regional IUCN staff report that large hammerheads and tiger shark
are also landed from the Pemba Channel (between Pemba Island and
the Tanzania mainland, some 250 km south of Malindi) and suggest that
this area could be an important pupping ground for these large sharks.
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