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The post put up by the fisherman named Trepman in Ramgoi, quickly received hundreds of comments and thousands of likes. “Looks very prehistoric”, wrote one surfer, while another was amazed: “Wow, what a creature!”. Some commenters commented that the shark appeared to be a “cigar shark”, a species of small cartilaginous fish in the kite shark family.
The Newsweek website published that the Bermagui fisherman had a different explanation. “Not quite a cigar shark,” he said, “it’s a rough-skinned shark. These sharks are common at depths of more than 600 meters. We usually catch them in the winter.”
The post put up by the fisherman named Trepman in Ramgoi, quickly received hundreds of comments and thousands of likes. “Looks very prehistoric”, wrote one surfer, while another was amazed: “Wow, what a creature!”. Some commenters commented that the shark appeared to be a “cigar shark”, a species of small cartilaginous fish in the kite shark family.
The Newsweek website published that the Bermagui fisherman had a different explanation. “Not quite a cigar shark,” he said, “it’s a rough-skinned shark. These sharks are common at depths of more than 600 meters. We usually catch them in the winter.”