The fisherman “sustained shark bite lacerations to his left forearm and left upper arm during attempts to release an approximately 2.5m shark that had been caught in their fishing nets.'
The 46-year-old fisherman from Cape Town, who sustained lacerations to his arm when he was bitten on Tuesday afternoon, had to be fetched by the National Sea Rescue Institute and taken to hospital for medical treatment.
The fisherman “sustained shark bite lacerations to his left forearm and left upper arm during attempts to release an approximately 2.5m shark that had been caught in their fishing nets and had been hauled aboard the fishing trawler,” he said.
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