Photo Credit: courtesy, Eli Tamim, Israel Nature and Parks Authority
A 2.5 meter-long (eight feet) female gray shark was killed Wednesday after it was trapped accidentally in a fishing net outside the Achziv nature reserve in Nahariya.
Although nature reserve workers tried to resuscitate the creature, there was little they could do but transfer the remains for an autopsy.
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Subsequent examination revealed the shark had been tagged several weeks earlier in a study to monitor the population around Hadera.
Grey sharks are caught in many fisheries, and have a low reproduction rate; as a result, the International Union for Conservation of Nature has assessed the species as Near Threatened, meaning the species may be threatened with extinction in the near future.
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