Carpet Shark New Zealand

New zealand s last fatal attack was in february 2013.

Carpet shark new zealand.

Carpet sharks are another commonly encountered species particularly from wellington south. Nurse sharks and whale sharks have a fringe of barbels on their snouts and barbelthroat carpet sharks cirrhoscyllium expolitum have barbels dangling from their throat regions. How to cite this page. It uses records dating back to the early 1800s to show the areas with the most attacks and fatalities.

The body is flattened dorsally and the tail resembles that of a dogfish. Carpet shark cephaloscyllium isabellum from an encyclopaedia of new zealand edited by a. Te ara the encyclopedia of new zealand. Since records began new zealand has suffered 12 fatal shark attacks dating back to the 1850s with at least 50 non fatal attacks recorded.

According to the late david h. This rather brightly coloured carpet shark was caught in akaroa harbour. By arthur william baden powell assistant director auckland institute and museum. Its appearance is somewhat grotesque and generally off putting to most surfcasters who are usually more inclined to let them go than take one home for dinner.

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So it is perfectly ok to eat. Carpets are largely nocturnal and always look like a deer in the headlights when dragged up the beach in daylight. No 1 southridge unit estate. It is brown mottled and spotted with darker brown.

In shape the carpet shark somewhat approaches the spreading form of a sting ray. Most carpet sharks feed on the seabed in shallow to medium depth waters detecting and picking up molluscs and crustaceans and other small creatures. Graham in i dpywlgo3 a treasury of new zealand fishes i dpywlgo3 canada and the united states carried on large scale fisheries and canneries for utilising dogfish where it was sold as greyfish. A chilling map of new zealand shark attacks shows where you re most likely to be bitten.