HUGE SHARK

Northern Advocate, 6 April 1927, Page 3

HUGE SHARK

FOR ZOO AQUARIUM,

SYDNEY, This Day,

A huge man-eating shark of the grey nurse variety was caught in the harbour near Camp Cove, and is now in the new aquarium at Taronga Park. The shark is between 12 and 14 feet

in length, and is by far the biggest specimen yet obtained. Although the monster is suffering from the effects jof the rough treatment neccessarily ! meted out to it, officials arc confident that it will recover.

Having read an announcement that sharks were required for the aquarium at the Zoo, two professional fishermen at Watson’s Bay, Messsrs E. Palmer and P. Parmer, sot out in their launch in the hope of making a good catch. The monster was hooked late in the afternoon, and put up a great fight. The fishermen, however, “played” the shark, and when it became tired they sot out in their launch for Taronga Park. The fish was towed behind the launch, its great fins standing out prominently above the surface of the water.

; Officials at Taronga Park were noti- | fled, and the shark was landed on a : small beach in front of the Zoo. Although exhausted after the long tow, the shark was still very likely. A tarpaulin was secured, and the task of wrapping the monster in it was, not an easy one. However, tMs was successfully accomplished, and the shark was placed on the launch and taken' to the Tai'onga Park wharf. With difficulty it was lifted from the launch and placed on a lorry, and transported as quickly as possible to the aquarium, when it was placed in the Avater shortly after 6 o’clock. There are now about seven sharks in the aquarium, but those previously captured are only half the size of that just added to the collection.