Taiwan News
Date: 2016-06-14
By: George Liao, Taiwan News, Staff Writer
Fishermen opened up two pregnant tiger sharks trapped in stationary fishing nets off the coast of 
Changbin Township, Taitung County and took out a total of 75 pups on Monday and Tuesday, of which the 38 Monday “born” pups are active and able to eat.
On Monday fishermen found a female tiger shark trapped in the stationary net had a round belly, which indicated to them it was expecting pups. The fishermen immediately opened up the female tiger shark and saved 38 pups, which the fishermen sent to the Eastern Marine Biology Research Center of the Fisheries Research Institute. On Tuesday another female tiger shark was caught by the net, and the fishermen took out 37 pups.
Ho Yuan-shing, head of the Eastern Marine Biology Research Center, said the fact that two female tiger sharks got caught in the stationary nets in two days might mean the period coincides with the birthing season of tiger sharks. [FULL STORY]
