Second Largest Fish Living Ever Caught

Astounded fishermen at Portland, west of Warrnambool, in Victoria, Australia caught the second largest fish living ever.

The length of the basking shark is believed to be 6,3 meters long while its weight is three tonnes. The rare male fish had pectoral fins were over a metre in length and 60cm wide, its fin was about 1.2 metres.

The fishermen, who accidentally caught the beast, donated it to the Melbourne Museum for scientific research. Wildlife experts hope that the fish will unearth more details about the rare species and their life under water. The last recording of this species being captured was in the 1930s.

The fishermen, who accidentally caught the beast, donated it to the Melbourne Museum for scientific research.

The basking shark is the second largest living fish, after the whale shark, and one of three plankton-eating sharks besides the whale shark and mega-mouth shark. It is a cosmopolitan migratory species, found in all the world’s temperate oceans.

Despite their large size and threatening appearance, basking sharks are not aggressive and are harmless to humans. It has long been a commercially important fish, as a source of food, shark fin, animal feed, and shark liver oil. Overexploitation has reduced its populations to the point where some have disappeared and others need protection.