Fishermen have brought another carcass of endangered whale shark to the country's largest fisheries harbour the other night, official said on Thursday. The carcass was chopped into pieces without being officially dissected as maritime and security departments didn't notice it.
For the harbour officials, it was difficult to say what had exactly killed the endangered marine species that was 18-feet long weighing 4000 kilogram and at what was its location at the sea. They said that it was the first incident of a whale shark carcass landed at the harbour this year. They said that it was believed to be young keeping in view its size. They said they had seen bigger whale sharks landed at the harbour in the recent years. They said it could not be confirmed whether it was young because its examination was not done.
The dead shark accidentally got trapped into the fishermen nets at the Ibrahim Hyderi coastal waters on Wednesday. The harbour officials said that the fishermen were busy at the coastal sea when the carcass trapped into their nets.
They said that fishermen brought the dead shark on Wednesday night and the trapping of shark also damaged the fishermen's nets costing Rs 70,000. The carcass however fetched no value as it was just cut into pieces and dumped into land, immediately. They said it was not sold and also remained unnoticed by the concerned departments who carried out no investigation. They claimed that the maritime departments shrugged off its responsibility to probe the catch. The harbour officials recalled that every shark landing at the harbour was investigated in the past. Shark species is named in the red-list of International Union of Conservation of Nature (IUCN) while CITES (Convention of International Trade of Endangered Species) describes it as endangered fish and restricts its trade globally.