Fishers who caught the deep-sea shark originally planned on selling it to a restaurant, but the Taiwan Ocean Artistic Museum obtained the specimen and plans on displaying it.
A trawler has landed a 1,760-pound goblin shark pregnant with six pups off the northeast coast of Taiwan — the largest goblin shark ever caught in those waters.
Related: Why did a weird goblin shark going viral on Twitter blow up into a bizarre scientific spat? "This species has translucent skin, a pink body and evil fangs," museum staff wrote on Facebook."It belongs to an ancient shark family and is a very rare living fossil." Marine conservationists decry this practice because it is indiscriminate in what it catches, sweeping up large amounts of non-target species that are then discarded. Research published in the journal Fisheries Research suggests bottom trawling accounts for nearly 60% of annual fisheries discards, which amounts to roughly 6.6 million tons every year.
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