A stranded great white shark was reported in Die Dam area near Gansbaai on Monday. The sud-adult female was dead and retrieved byShe was rolled into a trawl net and transported back to the International Marine Volunteers lodge in Kleinbaai to be necropsied by senior white shark biologist Alison Towner and the MDA team the following day.
The 2.9-metre-long shark was torn open at the pectoral girdle and had what appeared to be killer whale tooth impressions visible on the caudal fin, and it had a Domier dart head from an old acoustic tag imbedded in the musculature at the left side of its dorsal fin base. Swabs for genetic material were taken above and below the pectoral tear injury and the possible raker marks on the caudal fin, as well as two control sites on the body and were frozen.
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