Photograph caption dated May 23, 1982 reads, "Netted off Zuma Beach by commercial shark fisherman Ed Peters of Avalon, this 15-foot-long great white shark was weighed and tipped the scales at 2,700 pounds, not a record but mighty big for the California coast. Bloodied by an overnight struggle with the mile-long nets of the 40-foot trawler Maria Joanna, the sea beast was taken Friday about a dozen miles offshore, entangled in the undersea webbing. Its enormous weight prevented fishermen from hauling it aboard, so they attached six buoys to the carcass and towed it into the harbor behind their vessel. A large crane aboard another craft was used to lift it to the deck of the Maria Joanna, which was docked yesterday behind 122 cannery St. in Los Angeles Harbor. It is the largest shark Peters ever caught and he hopes to sell it. The jaws and teeth are valuable, but the meat of the great white is not the most palatable, Peters said. The shark itself seemed to have dined recently on something the size of two of three harbor seals which, Peters said, are quite palatable to a shark."
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1 photographic print :b&w ;29 x 36 cm. Photographic prints
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