News and Events
August 13, 2012
Sixgill Bycatch Off Cornwall
Dateline 13th August 2012
SIXGILL BYCATCH
The Trust has received reports of approximately 20 sixgill sharks being caught as bycatch sixty miles west of Padstow, Cornwall in a depth of approximately 200 feet. The catch occurred in early August and the net caught sixgills had been feeding off a porbeagle which had earlier become caught in the same net. The porbeagle had bite marks and one of the sixgills regurgitated a chunk of porbeagle when on deck.