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Rare all-white shark found: 'The fish of a lifetime'
The first-ever albino shark has been captured off Britain, near the Isle Of Wight, British news agency SWNS reports.
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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.