Hey Joey,
I had my college buddies up for the weekend, we took a walk down the breakwater on Sunday, (a cold Dale’s Pale Ale in hand) and about halfway down we saw this approx. 5.5′~7.0′ (solo, juvenille?) shark. Some may Nurse Shark, I think Lemon…
We followed it along the inside wall, heading west and near the end it headed towards the harbor. The classical spread of the small eyes, distanced fins, it’s shape, size, color were typical of Lemon…although if you zoom in it has a white tip to it’s tail fin only, which excludes the obvious white tip shark, which has a white tip on the dorsal. ??? Who knows? Maybe someone can figure it out. Very cool though!
~Bouch
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Dogfish?
Dogfish don’t get that big (only get to about 5’3″), and have spins on the dorsal fins
It must be Jaws then! The way the tail fin is, made me think of a dogfish, many a smooth dog fish. It looks smaller in the photo, hard to tell.
My wife and i saw the same creature last Tuesday evening swimming around by the breakwater, it looked like the one in this photo but not as big, maybe 3 feet at most. We thought it could be a Nurse or young sandbar shark…i’m no expert though. We go out on the point quite a bit and that’s the first time we’ve spotted one of those, it was quite the visual treat.
Two dorsal fins – usually a characteristic of mackerel shark species
Certainly wasn’t a dogfish…I’m born and bred in Gloucester, fished the Gulf of Maine recreationally my whole life, worked the waterfront lumping dogs as a kid, spent a tour of duty swordfishing in the G. Banks in 1990, certified scuba diver, just haven’t seen this species…The eyes were very small, (nurse like). There were two spread dorsals, but the most defining marking was the tail with it’s white tip, but no dorsal markings. Mackerel shark (porbeagle) doesn’t have that defined second dorsa and has dark larger eyes. Wierd???
~Rob Bouchie
Rob & Joey, I just saw this shark pic on Channel 7 news at 10. The gave GMG a (written) credit for photo. Great job to both of you! GMG continues its reign of putting Gloucester on the map!