Rare all-white shark found: ‘The fish of a lifetime’

New York Post ^ | October 5, 2020 | Chris Ciaccia

[nickcarraway]

The first-ever albino shark has been captured off Britain, near the Isle Of Wight, British news agency SWNS reports. Jason Gillespie was deep-sea fishing in the area when he spotted the remarkable three-foot tope shark.

“I’ve been fishing for 30 years and I’ve never seen one like that,” Gillespie, 50, said. “It’s the fish of a lifetime, one in a million.”

The tope shark, or school shark, has a condition called leucism that results in loss of pigmentation. Leucism occurs when some or all pigment cells fail to develop during differentiation, so part or all of the animal’s body surface lacks cells capable of making pigment.

[nickcarraway]

[granada]

Racist shark.

[BigEdLB]

Oh! You mean a REAL shark

[Jaysin]

white privilege?

[Eleutheria5]

Has he apologized for his privilege yet?

[Does so]

Brown fisherman...

[GOP Poet]

Wow.

[MadMax, the Grinning Reaper]

Adam Schiff is really a shark?

[redshawk]

Jimmy Durante..... Mammy!

[SaveFerris]

Oh the shark’s white,
with his teeth dear,
and he keeps them,
pearly white...

[Tallguy]

My wife has some underwater shots of an albino Whale Shark that she took while diving in the Galapagos Islands around 15 years ago. They might have been the first such pictures ever taken.

[KobraKai]

It’s a one-of-a-kind, so let’s kill it.

[Bullish]

Throw him back, SpongeBob’s going to miss him.

[Fresh Wind]

It’s a one-of-a-kind, so let’s kill it.

It wasn't killed. From the article:

After photographing the shark for what he said was “less than a minute,” the Waterlooville, Hampshire resident released the shark back into the ocean.

[Larry Lucido]

Helps to add bleach.

[pingman]

Caught near the Isle of Wight, no less. Coincidence? I think NOT!

[DIRTYSECRET]

I’m sure the white shark had no problem getting laid.