From Pregnant sandbar shark washes up dead on Israeli coast with fish hooks in stomach
Add ToI as a Preferred Source on GoogleSue Surkes is The Times of Israel's environment reporter
The corpse of a pregnant, two meter (6.5 foot) long sandbar shark washes up on the central coast, close to the Hadera power station, where warm waters attract mostly male sharks during the winter.
Efforts to save seven fetuses fail and while tests continue, an autopsy confirms the presence of two fishing hooks in the shark’s stomach, one of which pierced the stomach wall.
This species of shark is in danger of extinction in the Mediterranean Sea and considered vulnerable worldwide.
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