Un pescador captura a un tiburón tigre: ¡Para salvarlo!

En el estado de la Florida, en la costa de Captiva, un pescador afirmó haber capturado al tiburón tigre más grande de toda su vida, después de analizarlo un rato lo liberó nuevamente.

Elliot Sudal, investigador y pescador de tiburones, comentó que estaba muy cerca de la isla de Captiva en la búsqueda de este tipo de animales, debido a que en estas épocas los avistamientos son más frecuentes.

Mediante una publicación en su cuenta de Instagram, el pescador compartió que después de un largo tiempo de espera un tiburón tigre se arrimó a su embarcación, y mantuvo una ardua lucha con el animal hasta que pudo lograr capturarlo. Además dijo que era algo grande con un tamaño aproximadamente de unos 4 metros de largo.

El pescador y también investigador durante el momento de la captura iba acompañado de su amigo Clayton Jennings, y señaló que el animal era bastante grande, sin embargo, no podía imaginar cuanto era su peso.

Finalmente Sudal logró etiquetar y recolectar muestras de sangre del tiburón y cuando terminó, liberó al animal de manera segura, incluso pudo tomar varias fotos del extraordinario tiburón tigre.

Entre los comentarios de la publicación, Sudal señaló un dato muy interesante, y es que para capturar a los tiburones, emplea la técnica de retirar el anzuelo en aguas poco profundas, como en bancos de arena. De esta manera el tiburón tigre puede mantenerse respirando con el agua fluyendo sobre sus branquias.

Elliot Sudal ha llegado a ser muy popular por las capturas de grandes tiburones, e incluso de otras especies. Generalmente después de una captura comparte a través de su cuenta de Instagram imágenes de los animales y también les toma muestras de sangre para investigar más sobre estas criaturas y finalmente las etiqueta para protegerlas.

Incluso Elliot trabaja en colaboración con el Programa de Marcaje de Predadores de la Administración Nacional Oceánica y Atmosférica (NOAA), la cual impulsa la conservación de las especies, tiene como normativa principal “la no cacería de los mismos” y ayuda al marcado de tiburones.

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Here’s the story on the Tiger: I set out with my buddy @claytonjennings1 Sunday morning on the boat to Boca Grande pass, a spot notorious for giant sharks. This time of year it’s loaded with tarpon, which they feed on. I had a cooler full of fresh Bonita and we got up there and set some baits. 25 hours go by… not one bite. We’re incredibly exhausted and frustrated, my thoughts were I had somehow left some soap in my cooler and it ruined my baits. We leave and head back to Sanibel, but pull up by a sandbar to jump in and wash off, get on solid ground for a second. I had one Bonita left that had already been soaking for 12 hours, figured what the heck why not and floated it off by the pass. Five minutes later, it gets smoked. It was the heaviest, most consistently unstoppable run of my life, not even slowing down at full drag. This wasn’t my heaviest setup either, it was an 80 rigged more for boat stuff. Getting down to the last 100 feet of line, it became apparent this wasn’t happening from the beach, and we jump in the boat and slam it in reverse, backing down on it marlin style. After about 5 hours and being dragged around many miles, attempting to slow it down, and realizing what it was, we return to the sandbar. I’ve never dealt with a shark this size, and in my experience they are much easier to tag, blood sample and remove the hook when in shallow water. Plus the shark was almost as big as the boat. I finished the battle on the sand, keeping the shark in 2’ of water on a sandbar at the edge of the pass, so the flowing current would keep water moving over his gills. It was a male tiger shark, 13 feet 2 inches in length with a girth measurement of 81”. The weight calculations put that at around 1100 pounds! I tagged it, got a blood and fin sample, and swam it off into the pass where it took off like a champ. Unreal experience, largest shark I’ve ever caught, or even heard of being landed here. Tiger sharks are a rare species to see here, and it’s a great sign at how strong the shark populations are returning after the red tide this summer. And a huge shoutout to captain @claytonjennings1, couldn’t have done it without you man, what a day ? #sharkresearch

A post shared by Elliot Sudal (@acksharks) on Apr 30, 2019 at 5:06pm PDT

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I brought my indiana lake boat down to Florida when we moved here. It’s not the type of boat you want out in the deep. I didn’t expect to be catching thousand pound sharks from it, but that’s what happens when your friend is the most famous shark angler in the world. Today we caught a shark (Elliot reeled it in and I captained) over half the length of my boat. Elliot has caught more sharks than most fisherman do in a lifetime and he said this was his biggest shark yet. And of course, we had to get in the water with it on a sandbar to set it free. He tags them for federal research and takes a blood sample to learn how to better protect sharks. Being in the water holding this monster was an experience I’ll never forget! I’ve been on some wild adventures with @acksharks over the years but this tops the list. God’s creation is unrivaled. Beautiful fish.

A post shared by Clayton Jennings (@claytonjennings1) on Apr 29, 2019 at 6:05pm PDT

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