Mole sharks off the coast of Trégor

Porbeagle sharks over two meters in close proximity to the Trégor coast! And this is not a rumor: the Costarmorican Didier Brémont filmed them. Rare images, even if the presence of sharks has been proven for a long time.

“I anchor my boat, dive below, and wait.” An hour, sometimes more, sometimes for nothing… but not always! This is the technique that Didier Brémont, passionate videographer, implemented last month to shoot new images of “mole sharks”Massive (“ we evaluated one of them at three meters! ”) Off the Trégor, in the Côtes-d'Armor. And if it wasn't their first meeting (“I've been tracking them for two to three years” - other videos can be viewed online), this one gave rare images.
All the more rare as said porbeagle, also called maraîche, had almost disappeared, victim of overfishing especially in the 50s. It is now protected, recalls the Association for the Study and Conservation of Selachians (Apecs), based in Brest.

Fantasies and phony testimonies

But who says shark says fantasies and “teeth of the sea”, especially since the porbeagle shark is part of the same family of sharks as the famous white shark and the mako, another potentially dangerous species. And the Wikipedia site to report, without specific reference, an attack on a boat in which crew members were found with their skulls broken, "the captain with a piece of wood piercing his body".
“Bidon”, slice Didier Brémont, when the Apecs emphasizes having no reliable evidence of an accident involving this species. “The porbeagle sharks come to use bars and mackerel directly on the lines,” explains the association. Exaggeration or confusion with other species does the rest… ”

Deep sea

In the meantime, why in the Trégor and not elsewhere in Brittany? “We do not know, admit the specialists, but it is not because the images come mainly from Trégor that the shark itself is only present there.” To find out more, Apecs would also like to implant markers on a few specimens allowing them to be followed.

However, it remains to find the (sea) funds. In the meantime, as with the basking sharks to which it devotes a large part of its resources, the association encourages anyone who comes across a specimen to contact it.

www.asso-apecs.org and 02 98 05 40 38

source: http://www.letelegramme.fr/