Release from: Ms. Evie Lumingkit: Senior Aquaculturist
Nelson Gallentes: Aquaculturist II
Enn Meriell Largo: Contract of Service Worker/Documentor
DXIF Radio Station (Bombo Radyo)
Investigating Team from the Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources-10
At approximately 10:40 am on January 30, 2005, our team arrived in Purok 1A, Gusa, Cagayan de Oro City. The dead shark was
confirmed as a megamouth shark (Megachasma pelagios), measuring a total length of 417 cm and weighing approximately
1,000 kilograms. The fins were removed by unknown persons as narrated by on-lookers; three of the fins were later recovered.
Photographs of Megamouth #28
Enn Meriell Largo
Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources
Macabalan, Cagayan De Oro City
