65 males (817-2085 mm) were examined.
None were mature.Collected at 100-350 m deptth.
56 females (928-1961) were examined.
None were mature. Collected at 100-350 m deptth.
A goblin shark was caught alive Suruga Bay, Japan on 3rd February will be displayed at Numazu Deepsea Aquarium. It is a male and about a meter long, captured in about 100 meter deep water. According to the manager of the aquarium, the longest record for captivity of this species was about a week.
Thanks to Vic Lyn for info.
Dave Ebert personal commincation.
T he specimen in this picture that we saw in Taiwan measured ~110 cm TL.
Charlott Stenberg personal communication.
Captive specimen. It stayed alive for 48 h. Yanagisawa has written
some small papers in Japanese about it. One called "Beahaviour of
the goblin shark Scapanorhynchus owstoni in the aquarium". I think
it was caught in 1984, but I'm not sure. Here is the URL: http://www.umi.muse-tokai.jp/encyclopedia/fish/mtkrzm.html
ORI 2348
Bass et al. 1975. ORI IR No. 39. Taken at a depth of 549 m in a trawl west of Cape Town, Nov 1966. Photo of jaws.
Tokyo Sea Life Park, Apr 05, 2007
A goblin shark -- a rarely seen species often called a "living fossil" -- was caught alive in Tokyo Bay but died after being put on display, an aquarium said. The grey, long-nosed shark was caught in fishermen's nets around 150 to 200 metres (500 to 650 feet) deep. It was discovered by officials of the Tokyo Sea Life Park when they took a boat with local fishermen on January 25. "We were able to bring it to the aquarium alive and show it to the public," said an official at the park. But the shark died on the morning of January 27. "Dead goblin sharks are caught from time to time, but it is rarely seen alive. We were able to document the way the shark swims. After it died, we dissected the specimen for further studies," he said. The shark was about 1.3 metres long. Resembling pre-historic sharks, goblin sharks live on deep sea bottoms. Little is known about their lives.
Two videos! http://www.tokyo-zoo.net/topic/topics_detail?kind=news&inst=&link_num=6073
http://www.tokyo-zoo.net/news/temp/2007_01/goblin_shark.mov
http://www.tokyo-zoo.net/news/temp/2007_01/goblin_shark.wmv
1.260;
1.280;
1.350
Smallest mature male
Caught in a drift gill net set 13 km off San Clemente Island, CA by the commercial swordfish and shark fishing vessel GOLD COAST. Due to storage limitation on the boat, the goblin shark's body was discarded. The fisherman estimated the shark's total length (TL) as 2.7 m.
Smallest mature female (Compagno 2001, FAO Species Catalogue No.1 Vol.2 p. 70)
Stevens and Paxton (1985). The largest of 3 specimens
was 384 cm total length.
The hefty goblin shark was found by commercial fishermen Chris Shearer
and Sam Smart in their Friday catch. The shark had come from a depth of
about 500 m.
The Goblin Shark tank contains two fish. The submerged shark on the right side of the image has its jaws retracted. The shark in the foreground has its jaws protruded. The two specimens (originally 4-5 m in length) were collected at a depth of 1000 m off southern New South Wales.
ABSTRACT: A goblin shark, Mitsukurina owstoni (family Mitsukurinidae), was captured in
the northern Gulf of Mexico at 28 44.62' N, 88 34.13' W on 25 July 2000. The shark was captured by commercial fishers at 919 to 1,099 meters depth after it became entangled in fishing gear. The shark was female, the gut was empty, and no pups were present. Using regression analysis, the length was estimated to be 540 to 617 cm total length and may be the largest specimen collected to date. This capture from the Gulf of Mexico extends the goblin shark's range into the Atlantic waters of North America.