Shark ID
Submitted by Jason P on Sun, 2014-06-15 12:41
Caught and released north end of Garden Island, think it might be some type of carpet shark?
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Hutch
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I think it may be a collared
I think it may be a collared carpet shark, not too sure though
mjohns
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Black spotted cat shark
Black spotted cat shark
meglodon
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Good post
Never heard of them or seen one and have fished the north end of GI quite a bit, weird looking and look how far back the dorsal fin is.
Glenn Moore
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Blackspotted Catshark
Spot on mjohns. They are quite common but nocturnal - looks like you might have taken the photo at night? Special little WA shark - only found between The Recherche and Abrolhos
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Jason P
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Cheers guys, always good to
Cheers guys, always good to know what your actually catching.
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bergerac
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interesting you say that they
interesting you say that they are nocturnal, caught one in the same area in the middle of the day a couple of months ago
Guardy
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Caught one a couple of weeks ago
Not far from Carnac at night.