Mini-Jaws

Found this guy last week on the beach right where I was launching in the cove at PC.  Wasn't totally dead, gills were moving.  Salmon shark, about 42", the teeth were impressive though! 

zoiks.  not showing this to my wife, I sure don't need her thinking there are any sharks, even small ones, off the OR coast...

Death by sushi!

Fred "True" Trujillo

Sweet! I'd love to see something like that in the wild. Too bad it was dead/dying, I suppose it had a disease or something. Thanks for sharing the pictures!

Gills moving? That means he's still fresh? Did you take it home? Eating all that salmon. . he must be delicious! Mmmmm I want some

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that is super badass.  weird there have been so many salmon shark sightings recently.  GLOBAL WARMING!!!!!!!!!!!

I know you're being sarcastic.  But it's probably got more to do with salmon populations increasing, and if anything more cold water coming through.  They (salmon sharks) seem to like the really cold waters of the northern Pacific.

This is awesome! I read somewhere that you can't doing anything with the beach sharks but report them to authorities. They look delicious though. We have had at least three of these beach in my area in the last month or so. Cool pics!

I know you're being sarcastic.  But it's probably got more to do with salmon populations increasing, and if anything more cold water coming through.  They (salmon sharks) seem to like the really cold waters of the northern Pacific.

GLOBAL COOLING!!!!

I know you're being sarcastic.  But it's probably got more to do with salmon populations increasing, and if anything more cold water coming through.  They (salmon sharks) seem to like the really cold waters of the northern Pacific.

GLOBAL COOLING!!!!

That's the beauty of algore's shtick.  No matter what it's humanity's fault, and the only solution is to give him more money.

I wonder if his flesh is salmon colored?

Dino
HOW - NWest

I have come to the conclusion there is nothing Dino won't eat.

I have come to the conclusion there is nothing Dino won't eat.

You are correct in your conclusion. 

I have come to the conclusion there is nothing Dino won't eat.

+1 It has to come from the ocean though. No grubs from a log unless it's been floating at sea for at least a week!

There has always been a number of baby salmon shark beachings.  I wonder if there are more, or if the case is that we just hear about it more.  In today's day and age it's a lot easier for the "news" to get out.

Salmon shark migrate south in the spring to pup off the CA coast before migrating back north to the likes of Prince Williams Sound to feast on the salmon that congregate there.  We see beachings in CA earlier in the summer and they seem to happen more to the north (Oregon and Washington) as the summer progresses ... consistent with the migration.

And yeah, salmon shark is good eats.  The flesh is a meatier texture, almost pork-like in texture, with a flavor like other sharks in its class (threshers and makos).  Almost swordfish like.  Of course you should bleed and gut them ASAP to reduce the urea flavor that can permeate shark meat if you don't care for it in such a fashion.

-Allen