Fisherman reels in white shark off Massachusetts, then snags the hook from its toothy mouth

Andreea Neblea

BILLERICA, Mass. (AP) — Elliot Sudal didn’t need a bigger boat, but he did need to find a way to get a hook out of a shark’s mouth. Sudal, a veteran angler and boat captain, reeled in the nearly nine-foot shark — also commonly known as a great white shark or a great white — on June 7 on Nantucket. White sharks are a protected species in the U.S. and must be released immediately when accidentally caught. That presents a nasty problem for a fisherman because the white shark is a formidable apex

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