Sulikowski and members of the Maine-based Sulikowski Shark and Fish Research Lab were able to get a shark to follow their chum line to the bait. They reeled it in to secure it alongside their boat so they could begin the sampling procedure. They'd landed a 7-foot porbeagle shark with a strip of plastic lodged around her neck. James Sulikowski and his team found this porbeagle shark with a piece of plastic lodged around its gills. "I immediately knew something was wrong as we were pulling her close," Sulikowski wrote in an email.

Source: CNN July 17, 2019 16:18 UTC