Where ever it was caught, it is a big shark. Photo: Facebook/Geoff Brooks
This is a very, very big shark. Details about the hows and the wheres, though, are conflicting. The only thing that’s really for sure is that it was caught somewhere off the coast of Australia.
The photo of the massive tiger shark was posted to Facebook by a man named Geoff Brooks. “As far as I’m aware,” he told The Daily Mail, “it was a kill order on a shark here on the far north coast that was identified as being responsible for a local attack.”
The Northern Star, however, tells a different story. According to them, a local fisherman was reeling in a hammerhead shark when the massive tiger shark ate it. “I was fighting the hammerhead and he came up and swallowed it,” said the fisherman. “I was the one that took that photo and I was the one that caught that fish. I caught it fourteen miles off Tweed Heads.”
Karl Goodsell, a representative for a Byron Bay-based non-profit called Positive Change for Marine Life, suspects the latter to be true. “It looks to be a licensed commercial shark fishing boat from the ID of the boat,” he said. According to Goodsell, the fisherman would have been working under Ocean Trap and Line Fishery regulations, which are a broad summary of the principles that local fisherman should operate under.
