'Baby Shark'... ichthyologists think drone video may reveal a sight never seen before (Page 1/1)
rinselberg JAN 31, 09:00 AM

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Drone footage shot off the coast of Southern California may have revealed the first ever glimpse of a newborn great white shark in the wild.

The 1.5-meter-long (5-foot-long) white shark was spotted on July 9, 2023, 400 meters (1,300 feet) off the coast of Carpinteria, California, by wildlife filmmaker Carlos Gauna and Phillip Sternes, a doctoral student in the department of biology at University of California Riverside, while they were shooting aerial video and images.

Its pale coloring and size immediately struck the duo as unusual. Adult great white sharks are gray on top and white underneath.

Gauna and Sternes examined the images and video in the viewfinder of the drone camera and noticed a thin, white film covering the shark that was sloughing off the animal as it moved.

“We enlarged the images, put them in slow motion, and realized the white layer was being shed from the body as it was swimming,” Sternes said in a news release. “I believe it was a newborn white shark shedding its embryonic layer.”


There's more, including drone video and "stills" in this CNN report:
https://www.cnn.com/2024/01...shark-scn/index.html

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olejoedad JAN 31, 09:49 AM
That's pretty cool!
williegoat JAN 31, 10:01 AM
Shark veal!
maryjane JAN 31, 12:01 PM
I have eaten shark a couple of times. Was not impressed. (yes, it does taste a bit like chicken breast meat.)
rinselberg JAN 31, 01:11 PM
Quite some years ago, Thresher Shark was often on the menu at The Fish Market Restaurants in this area. I had it several times. I liked it. I wouldn't say it was like chicken breast. It was dense and chewy, with an assertively maritime flavor... I'd liken it to grilled tuna fillets or steaks.

Some years ago, it stopped appearing on the menu.

Recently, the last of The Fish Market Restaurant locations in this area closed. There had been two that were near by, and one that was near enough. There was the market section, where you could buy the fish to take home and prepare, and the adjoining restaurant section.

They used to grill the fish with open flames... "mesquite-grilled." That was their golden age. When Covid struck, they downsized their menu and ditched the mesquite grills for range top skillets.

Now the only three franchise locations are in San Diego, over 400 miles away.
maryjane JAN 31, 01:28 PM
Chewy means it was over cooked, just as shrimp and scallops get when they are cooked too long.
Shark flesh is different than the flaky type meat from other fish.
It's essentially just a big muscle that is worked constantly.
williegoat JAN 31, 02:32 PM

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Originally posted by maryjane:

Chewy means it was over cooked, just as shrimp and scallops get when they are cooked too long.
Shark flesh is different than the flaky type meat from other fish.
It's essentially just a big muscle that is worked constantly.


I love to grill shark and swordfish, but there is a very fine line between sashimi and shutki.

I no longer grill fish for other people because they are never happy. They always want me to throw it back on, and then it is ruined. Steak is more forgiving.
rinselberg JAN 31, 03:23 PM
It wasn't overcooked. At least, not always. I said "dense and chewy," but I really meant "dense," more than "chewy."

I guess the "chewy" was the time or two when it was overcooked.