Mile 98 Report
Bandon State Park, China Creek
January 31, 2009
We received a call from CoastWatcher Barbara Harrison concerning a dead shark on Mile 98 just north of China Creek.
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We received a call from CoastWatcher Barbara Harrison concerning a dead shark on Mile 98 just north of China Creek. We went out and identified it as a Salmon Shark. We normally find these young sharks in August to October and so, were surprised to see it. This shark was a male, weighed 30.8 pounds and was 111.5 cm (43.8 inches)long. The skin was pink, and we think that this might be due to bruising caused by rolling in the surf after death. The animal appeared to be very freshly dead. We collected and froze this shark for the Oregon Institute of Marine Biology's summer course in fish biology.
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