A group of Japanese fishermen recently pulled an exceedingly rare catch from the depths, hauling in a megamouth shark, a species that has been witnessed less than a hundred times in the wild since it was first discovered. The megamouth shark was caught roughly five kilometers from Owase Port in Mie Prefecture, central Japan, according to the Independent. The unfortunate shark was captured with a net and eventually brought to land, weighing in at nearly a ton. It was eventually bought by a local fishmonger, and the shark’s ultimate disposition remains unknown. A very rare Megamouth shark has been caught in Japan...
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