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Article: Great White Shark Dies in Captivity
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- June 23, 2005
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AP Online
06-23-2005
Dateline: MONTEREY, Calif.
A great white shark mistakenly captured by fishermen died shortly after the Monterey Bay Aquarium transported it to an ocean holding pen.
The 5-foot, 60-pound shark was caught eight days ago off Huntington Beach before a 4 million gallon holding pen had been moved from storage in Mexico and set up in ocean waters off Malibu. Aquarium officials initially moved the female shark to a much smaller holding pool in San Pedro until the larger pen was ready.
The shark was finally moved to the ocean pen on Friday. It was found dead on Sunday.
"It seemed like a reasonable thing to do," said aquarium spokesman Ken Peterson. "Our husbandry staff had some ...