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Young Indonesian fishermen were stunned when they found inside a shark that had been collected with their nets a small baby with a surprising appearance: white and with only one eye.
The finding came after fishermen caught the adult shark in the sea off the Moluccas Islands, belonging to Indonesia, on October 10.
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“We found three babies inside her stomach (from the captured shark), but one of them looked strange, with only one eye. Its color was strange too, like milk “Andy Goin, one of the members of the fishermen’s group, told the site ‘Yahoo News Australia’.
The young man, 29, uploaded the photos of this striking animal to his Facebook account, in which he narrated the experience he had lived.
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He further explained that they reported the incident to the local marine office before handing over the strange baby shark, which was dead when they found it.
The baby shark had a condition called cyclopia, a congenital deformity that causes the embryo to form only one eye instead of two. And extreme whiteness responds to another condition, albinism, which occurs when low amounts of melanin are generated., which is the substance responsible for pigmentation.
The finding also generated criticism in social networks, since it occurred in the middle of an environmental crisis that Indonesia is experiencing as a result of shark fishing.
According to the Spanish magazine ‘XL Semanal’, more than 10,000 sharks are caught each year in the Asian country, and about 100 million are caught worldwideThis in order to use the back and tail fins, which cost up to $ 600 per kilo (more than two million pesos).
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This industry, in addition to endangering the marine ecosystem, exploits small fishermen, since “a boat has to return with at least 25 sharks (…) If not, they do not cover the costs of crew, rent, gasoline and the ice that is needed to preserve the captured specimens“Italian photographer Federico Borella, who made a report on the subject, told the magazine.
A boat has to return with at least 25 sharks
“But it is something that only worries a few. Sharks are predators, they have a reputation for being dangerous, for being enemies of human beings “, the photographer explained to ‘XL Semanal’:”These poor animals have no ‘lobby’ to defend them”He added.
Finally, he concluded that the balance of marine food chains largely depends on sharks, which are the strongest predators in the sea, hence the fact that Indonesia hunts them excessively, and that countries such as Brazil, Uruguay, Italy and Spain import these products, it affects marine ecosystems worldwide.
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