Rare Megamouth Shark Caught, Eaten in the Philippines

i wonder how it tasted. i am sad i wasn’t there to try it..

Sucks that it got caught, but if it died, then well… why not eat it.
It’s not like they were looking to catch it and kill it… at least I hope not O_O

What were they suppose to do with it?? Look at it rot on the beach? At the size of it, it probably fed and entire village for a few days. I’d rather see it not get wasted than have all this flesh go to waste for the purpose of exposing the skeleton in a museum. Since it had to die, at least let that not be in vain.

Wasnt there a post a while back about them finding a rare bird in the Philippines and then eating it?

They probably made shark fin soup of the poor fish. They’ll eat anything over there. Seriously. Didn’t they just eat some extinct bird not too long ago?

Shark meat is delicious. As others are saying, the shark died due to accidentally becoming entangled in the nets. It is the most respectful then to eat the animal and not let its flesh go to waste.

Sammy, I remember that too. Odd…

OH WOW, I see people here saying that since it died anyways then they might as well have eaten it. If it is a rare shark like they said, they could have done research on the shark, what it ate, what environment it lived in, and maybe found out if there were more of it around. Scientist or researches could have learned so much from this shark, dead or alive. Google it, theres more to this article. I read another article that went in depth and not just skimmed the top like this one. Another article stated that an organization actually contacted the people and asked them not to do anything with it so they can research and document it, But these people still ate it. Its so embarrassing. They did the same thing to a quail that was thought to be extinct. Smurf you are right they will eat anything there. Now the stories about Filipinos eating dog isn’t hard to believe