FIGHT WITH A SHARK.
A fight between a 15ft. shark and a Weymouth fisherman was seen off the Dorset coast a few M-eeks ago, when the shark was brought ashore in a net at Abbotsbury. It weighed 14cwt. and belonged to t'.'e thresher species of shark, which lias lately been seriously interfering with mackerel fishing. The shark lashed out right and loft in its ono or two of the boat's crew receiving injuriaa*
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXV, Issue 20028, 18 August 1928, Page 2 (Supplement)
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