It was beached, but alive: this morning a blue shark was rescued in San Giovanni di Sinis, on the coast of Cabras .
To raise the alarm, signaling its presence to the Forestry Corps, was a resident of the town, Pippo Mereu, who noticed the animal wriggling on the shore.
The rangers of the Oristano station arrived on the spot, intervening in collaboration with the researchers of the Cnr and the operators of the Sinis marine protected area. Together they facilitated the shark's return to the sea with extreme caution and waited for over half an hour to prevent it from being washed ashore again.
"It often happens that in certain periods of the year and in areas with low anthropic attendance, this species frequents the coast for food or reproductive purposes, hunting above all fish and cephalopods", explain the director of the Amp Massimo Marras and the Cnr biologist Andrea Camedda, "Having not noticed signs of trapping in fishing tools, we hypothesize that the specimen, an adult male of about two meters in length, accidentally stranded during the predation activity on its target species".
The shark had been noticed by the sport fisherman Giandomenico Meli on the evening of 4 January while he was wandering around the coast, probably hunting for fish or squid.
(Unioneonline/E.Fr.)
