NEW YORK — June 26, 2014 — A group of fisherman caught and released a great white shark in the waters off Rockaway Beach. A New York City angler caught a small great white shark while fishing with friends less than a mile offshore from a busy Queens beach Sunday, just a day after another shark swam up to a boat off the Jersey Shore and chomped into a bait basket.
Steve Fernandez said he and a couple of friends were fishing in a small boat near Rockaway Beach when he hooked the 80-pound baby shark. He struggled for about 15 minutes to reel the shark up to the boat, when he and the group snapped some photos. Then he tagged the animal and cut it loose, as required by state law.
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