Ancient frilled shark caught in Japan

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Originally Posted by cirquelover

The Japanese are sure finding some interesting creatures lately, giant squid and some other fish if I recall right and now this shark. They must be sinking a lot of time and money into these projects.

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It's because they have depleted and contaminated their fishing stocks almost beyond repair and are forced to fish deeper and deeper (and further out) to maintain catch size.

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Anyway, totally cool shark.