The prolificacy or sharks - breeding has lone; been known, but something like a record in that respect has been established on the Taranaki coast in (he past week. Sharks have frequently been caught containing up to 30 young A fish captured oil' New Plymouth last week contained 34, but off Wai tara at the week-end a fisherman hauled in a 6ft. shark which was found to contain 41 young, all nine to lOin. long.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 19454, 13 October 1937, Page 3
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