Friday, December 4, 2009
Setting Free the Sharks
The sharks in Waychinicup waters are big - for small sharks. This Port Jackson is probably the same one we caught last year, cruising along the nets munching on skippy until he/she became the opposite of unstuck. While Wobbygongs will snap grumpily, Port Jackson sharks wait patiently for me to unmesh them and then fold back into the soupy waters and lazily swim away.
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They are lovely, and I guess are lucky that they are not like other sharks who would drown in similar circumstances.
ReplyDeleteYes, absolutely.
ReplyDeleteOnce, we lost a net out at sea at night, searching for about an hour in the chop. The next morning we went out again and found it easily. The net was full of little PJ's and they looked dead. I was devastated but took them down to Mids anyway. Some friends with their young boys were down from Perth and we all held these baby sharks in the water, until they began to move around. eventually, every single one swam away. amazing. Requiem sharks, I think they are called.
How lucky the requiem sharks are to swim into your nets, Sarah.
ReplyDeleteI've never been a PJ, methinks, but check out the Stanza 12 image from The Feast @
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Yes!
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