Blacktip Reef Shark Reproduce In Nha Trang Aquarium

May 22, 2009

Release from: Thanh Nien Daily News (Vietnam)

A black-tip reef shark (Carcharius melanopterus) has produced five offspring for the first time in Vietnam in an aquarium at the Institute of Oceanography in Nha Trang Town, Khanh Hoa Province.

Chu Anh Khanh of the institute said Thursday the baby sharks, 35 centimeter long, weighed 0.7kg each, and were in good health.

The institute said it doesn’t know how long the pregnancy lasted because it didn’t know when the sharks had conceived.

The institute has been raising a male and three female black-tip reef sharks for 10 years now. They weigh 30kg each and are about one meter long. All three female sharks are pregnant but only one has given birth.