| Date/Photo | Reference | Sex | TL (m) | W (kg) | FL (m) | Comments |
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 08 Jul 2007 |
Pers. comm. by Mark Harding, Alderney Angling | 1.45 | 3.86 | 1.45m long, 9lb 8oz caught South Banks, Alderney 8th July 2007 by BlakeJackson on feathers and pirk intended for mackerel. More tangled than caught. | ||
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1957?
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| 30 June 2004 | 3.975 | 155 | Aqurio de Veracruz | |||
 06 Aug 2007 |
Thanks to Richard Lord for URL | ~14 ft 4.26 |
~500 lbs 226 |
Monster
shark landed off Isle of Wight By Peter Law A MONSTER shark - one of the biggest ever hooked in British waters - has been caught off the Isle of Wight. The beast, weighing an estimated 500lb (226kg), was the "catch of a lifetime" for Danny Vokins, who has been chasing sharks for the past 30 years.It took the amateur fisherman more than two hours to reel in the 14ft (4.26m) thresher shark. Using live mackerel as bait on an 80lb line, the "freak" shark struck at 1.45pm about five miles south east of St Catherine's, the island's most southerly point. |
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| 1983 | Quigley & Hannon 2005 | ~~5.5* | 348 | Present IGFA World Record; Bay of Islands, New Zealand 1983 | ||
| 8 Feb 1981 | Pete Saul, posting on Elasmo-L | to come | 366.8 | The largest thresher shark officially caught in New Zealand is 366.8kg,
caught Feb 8 1981. It is not listed as the IGFA all-tackle record for
some reason, but is the womens world record on 37kg tackle. There are
existing photographs of larger thresher sharks caught in New Zealand but
the IGFA revised all records at some stage due to doubts about species
identity. There are certainly photos of threshers in excess of 900 pounds. cheers, Pete Saul |
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| For photo see Reference July 2005 |
Quigley & Hannon 2005 | 4.23 | 350-400 | Captured by MFV "Northern Celt" out of Dunmore East, Co Waterford Ireland | ||
| 1995 | Quigley & Hannon 2005 | 4.75 | ~~244* | Caught in net. Sheephaven Bay, Co Dongal Ireland | ||
 16 June, 1569 |
full ref to be added | 17 ft 5.18 |
~~301* |  Dr. Paul Chambers found this interesting shark record from 1569 which was identified by Richard Lord as a thresher shark Alopius vulpinus |
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| Summer 1905 | Quigley & Hannon 2005 | 5.425 | ~~338* | Port na Blagh, Sheephaven Bay, Co Dongal Ireland | ||
| 14 Oct 2007 | Douglas Herdson | 5.8?* | ~400 | A large thresher was entangled in the ropes of a line of lobster pots 6 miles off Charlestown, Cornwall on 14th October 2007. It was 340 kg gutted, so thought to be around 400 kg entire. The largest Alopias vulpinus I can find reference to is the IGSAF record fish of 348 kg entire (no further details). Though there was also a ref to a Alopias superciliosus of 952 lb (= 433 kg). | ||
| 2007 in Hawaii to be checked |
Douglas Herdson | 6.0?* | 433 (952 lbs) |
A large thresher was entangled in the ropes of a line of lobster pots
6 miles off Charlestown, Cornwall on 14th October 2007. It was 340 kg
gutted, so thought to be around 400 kg entire. The largest Alopias vulpinus
I can find reference to is the IGSAF record fish of 348 kg entire (no
further details). There was also a ref to a Alopias superciliosus of 952 lb (= 433 kg) caught in Hawaii in 2007 |
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 21 Nov 2007 |
Douglas Herdson; Richard Lord |
F | ~5 (16 ft) 6.4?* |
510 (1125 lbs) |
1125 lb thresher shark, Alopias
vulpinus, caught off Cornwall yesterday (21 November) |
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| Date/Photo | Reference | Sex | TL (m) | W (kg) | FL (m) | Comments |
* using Kohler et al. 1995; W (kg) = 1.8821*10-4* FL^2.5188; FL = 0.5474*TL
+ 7.0262; note that it is 'dangerous' to use their data for
extrapolatation to obtain mass from TL or FL from mass for *large* threshers
(that is extrapolating beyond the range of the available data). It appears
to overestimate TL and underestimate W for large fish.
Calculated TL (from W) and W (from FL) carry extra digits to allow check on
the calculation of the estimated values.