Fishermen in New Jersey caught the great white shark

A group of fishermen went fishing for a mako shark and moved about a kilometer away from the coast of New Jersey about 64. But instead of a mako, they caught about an 2-meter white shark, writes Fox News.

Photo: Chris O'Neill Facebook Fishermans Headquarters

Fishermen Chris O'Neill, his uncle Joe, Sam Messler and Robert McLaughlin lowered the fishing line to a depth of 6 meters, 12 meters and 20 meters. After about 45 minutes, O'Neill noticed that the shark-catching device, which had been lowered to 12 meters, began to spin. The crew calmly waited for about 2 minutes until the drum cracked.

“We started reeling it in. We didn’t know what we had on the hook, but we really hoped it was a mako,” O’Neill says.

After 15 minutes, a fin appeared on the surface, and the fishermen began to pull the catch to the boat. When O'Neill pulled out some 2-meter fish and saw its jaws, I realized that it was not a mako, but a great white shark.

After the fisherman realized whom he had caught, he, following the rules in force in the state, carefully released her.

“We knew we had to let her go as quickly as possible,” the fisherman recalls. It took them only 30 seconds to complete the release procedure.

The white shark is not yet among the animals on the list of nature conservation in New Jersey, but the state cannot "buy, own or sell" white sharks.

O'Neill has never met a white shark so closely, and says it was “just insane.”

Rybak sent shark photos to a friend who works at Fishermans Headquarters at Ship Bottom. A friend posted a photo of a shark on a Facebook page, after which everyone learned about the story.

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