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Article: California aquarium puts great white shark on display.(Knight Ridder Newspapers)
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- September 16, 2004
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Byline: Ken McLaughlin
SAN JOSE, Calif. _ After taking a great white shark on a wild road trip from Malibu to Cannery Row, the Monterey Bay Aquarium put it on exhibit Wednesday _ the only great white on display in the world today.
Hours later, the young shark lunched on some salmon fillets _ the first time a great white has accepted food from its captors, and a sign that maybe, just maybe, the aquarium can accomplish something else that's never happened before: keep a great white shark on long-term display.
Commercial halibut fishermen inadvertently snagged the young female fish in their nets off the coast of Huntington Beach three weeks ago. It ...