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jakeo
08-30-2008, 06:01 PM
Man says he found dead shark in Lake Michigan
Sat Aug 30, 2:52 PM ET


TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. - There's no telling what might turn up in Lake Michigan.

Rich Fasi of Traverse City says he found a dead 2-foot shark in the water while fishing on West Grand Traverse Bay on Wednesday.
The saltwater fish was a juvenile blacktip shark, said Mark Tonello, a fisheries biologist from the Michigan Department of Natural Resources.
Tonello said someone might have caught the shark off the Atlantic Coast and kept it on ice while bringing it to northern Michigan.
Another possibility is that the dead shark was dumped by someone who had kept it as a pet, Tonello said




maak
08-31-2008, 07:29 AM
Maybe it came out of a ballast tank of a freighter, like zebra mussels and round gobies. I believe blacktips get too big to be pets, but I did know a guy who had a 6-foot alligator in a flooded basement in Grand Rapids.

DE82
08-31-2008, 09:39 AM
Man says he found dead shark in Lake Michigan
Sat Aug 30, 2:52 PM ET


TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. - There's no telling what might turn up in Lake Michigan.

Rich Fasi of Traverse City says he found a dead 2-foot shark in the water while fishing on West Grand Traverse Bay on Wednesday.
The saltwater fish was a juvenile blacktip shark, said Mark Tonello, a fisheries biologist from the Michigan Department of Natural Resources.
Tonello said someone might have caught the shark off the Atlantic Coast and kept it on ice while bringing it to northern Michigan.
Another possibility is that the dead shark was dumped by someone who had kept it as a pet, Tonello saidI would bet the farm that's what it is. People do crap like that all the time. I remember a guy "caught" a parana out of waters in Michigan they later found out to be a tank fish :lol:

UltimateOutdoorsman
08-31-2008, 09:42 AM
Maybe blacktips are gonna run the boardman with the salmon?? :corkysm55

wally-eye
08-31-2008, 09:45 AM
I seen that on the news yesterday. Kind of interesting because the story that was told on the news was that it was "caught" not found dead????

I don't know what the real truth is.....but being found dead sounds logical as if it was released alive it would only live a few scant days in fresh water.

I was going to start a thread about it but didn't feel that anyone would believe it.........

spendit
09-02-2008, 02:57 PM
I was going to start a thread about it but didn't feel that anyone would believe it.........

Probably here to keep all those cougars from swiming over from Wisconsin:lol: