PLOT c/TSWP-QH · version 1
The writer reports a basking shark, 12 ft 11 in long, caught in fishermen's nets in Hobson's Bay off Williamstown on 2 May 1902.
On the 2nd May last a large shark was captured in Hobson's Bay, off Williamstown, which was quite unknown to any of the fisher- men and others who saw it. It was captured through becoming entangled in the nets of some local fishermen, which it damaged considerably, and unfortunately bruised itself a good deal in its powerful struggles to escape. Its captors immediately disembowelled it, and had it conveyed to the city for exhibition purposes, where it was secured for the Museum. It proved to be a medium-sized male specimen of the Basking Shark, Cetorhinus maximus, Gunner, and measured a total length of 1 2 feet 1 1 inches. This species, which is the only one of the genus, is a very rare visitor to Australia Historical passage
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- Reported by source
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- Reported by community
- Period
- 1902
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Cite as: PLOT record c/TSWP-QH v1, Field Naturalists' Club of Victoria (1902), reported by source