Rescue mission to save snagged shark at Bushrangers Bay

Ben Langford
Updated February 20 2020 - 7:28am, first published 7:27am
With the gang hook removed from its eye, the shark was released and swam away. Picture: Sea Life Aquarium.
With the gang hook removed from its eye, the shark was released and swam away. Picture: Sea Life Aquarium.

A scientist has told how he and his team nursed a Grey Nurse shark in a Bushrangers Bay rescue mission last week, after the animal had got a ganged fish hook stuck from her eye to her mouth.

Ben Langford

Ben Langford

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