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Shannon News, 31 December 1928, Page 3

Air .Shepherd, curator of Wanganui Museum, in conversation .with a reporter of the local “Herald” in regard to mako sharks caught at the Bay of Islands, mentioned that when" lie. went to Russell to take charge of a mako shark given to the museum the tackle was still inside the fish and the owner asked that this should be returned to him after the fish had been skinned. , When Mr Shepherd opened the mako he found that the Kahawai. attached to , the tackle had passed Through the mass of teeth in the mako’s jaws without a scratch. There are three classes oc shark, ineluling the mako, having similar teeth, and these can be laid down flat in the jaw at will, either a section or the whole of them, and this accounts for the small fish not being scratched when the mako took the bait. Should the teeth happen to be in a flat position at the time of death it. is impossible afterwards- to lift them upright.