List of megamouth shark specimens and sightings

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The megamouth shark is extremely rare, with 39 specimens known to have been caught or sighted as of 2007 and three recordings on film.

This list of megamouth shark specimens and sightings is a comprehensive listing of all recorded human encounters with Megachasma pelagios, popularly known as the megamouth shark.

List of megamouth sharks

Records are listed chronologically in descending order and numbered accordingly.

• Date – Date on which the specimen was first captured, found, or observed.
• Location – Area where the specimen was found.
• Sex – Sex and sexual maturity of the specimen.
• Size – Data relating to measurements. Abbreviations used are based on standardised acronyms in ichthyology (see Measurements).
• Method of capture – Circumstances in which the specimen was recovered or observed.
• Disposition – Repository or otherwise fate of the specimen.
• References – Primary sources for each specimen as well as later publications that refer to the specimen.
• Notes – Miscellaneous information.

#	Date	Location	Sex	Size	Method of capture	Disposition	References	Notes
1	15 November, 1976	25 miles off Kāne'ohe, Oahu, Hawaii (21°51′N 157°46′W)	Male	TL: 4.46 m; PCL: 3.091 m (69.3% TL); WT: 750 kg	Became entangled in the sea anchor of a United States Navy ship	Deposited at the Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum	Dunford (1976); Taylor (1977); Cressey & Boyle (1978); Johnson (1978); Taylor et al. (1983); [Anonymous] (1983a, b, c, d, e, f); Maisey (1985); Wood (1986)	Holotype and first recorded specimen. First examined by Leighton Taylor, who dubbed it "megamouth".
2	29 November, 1984	Catalina Island, California	Male	TL: 4.49 m		Deposited at the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County	[Anonymous] (1984a, b); Lavenberg & Seigel (1985); Diamond (1985); Maisey (1985); Wood (1986)
3	18 August, 1988	Mandurah, Western Australia	Male	TL: 5.15 m; PCL: 3.43 m (66.6% TL)		Deposited at Western Australia Museum	Berra & Hutchins (1988); [Anonymous] (1988a, b); Nielsen (1988); Berra & Hutchins (1990); Berra & Hutchins (1991)
4	23 January, 1989	Hamamatsu, Shizuoka, Japan	Male	TL: 4+ m	Found washed ashore	Discarded	Nakaya (1989a); Nakaya (1989b)
5	June, 1989	Yaizu, Shizuoka, Japan	Female*	TL: ~4.9 m		Released alive	Miya et al. (1992)	* Most likely a female (John Morrissey).
6	21 October, 1990	Dana Point, California	Male	TL: 4.94 m	Found entangled in a drift gillnet	Tracked	Haight (1990a); Haight (1990b); [Anonymous] (1990a, b, c, d); [Anonymous] (1991a, b); Lavenberg (1991); Nelson et al. (1997)	Specimen was taken alive, then fitted with two ultrasonic transmitters and tracked for two days. The shark was observed to move close to the surface at night and deeper during the day.
7	29 November, 1994	Hakata Bay, Fukuoka, Japan (34°40′N 130°50′E)	Immature female	TL: 4.71 m; PCL: 3.136 m (66.6% TL)		Deposited at Marine World Umino-Nakamichi (Fukuoka, Japan)	Castro (1994); Takada (1994); Takada (1995); Clark & Castro (1995); Castro et al. (1997); Nakaya et al. (1997); Takada et al. (1997); Tanaka & Yano (1997); Yabumoto et al. (1997); Yamaguchi & Nakaya (1997); Yano et al. (1997a); Yano et al. (1997b); Yano et al. (1997c); Goto (1999)	First confirmed female.
8	4 May, 1995	Dakar, Senegal	Immature male	TL: ~1.8 m		Discarded	Séret (1995)
9	18 September, 1995	southern Brazil	Immature male	TL: 1.9 m	Caught by fishermen	Deposited at Instituto de Pesca in São Paulo, Brazil	Castro & Gadig (1995); Amorim et al. (1995); Amorim et al. (2000)
10	30 April, 1997	12 miles offshore south of Mikizaki, Owase, Mie, Japan (33°44′N 136°16′E) (150 m depth)	Female	TL: 5.44 m; WT: 1,040 kg	Caught by fishermen	Deposited at Toba Aquarium	Yano et al. (1997d); Ito et al. (1999)	External brain form and cranial nerves studied in detail.
11	20 February, 1998	Macajalar Bay, Cagayan de Oro, Philippines	Male	TL: ~5.49 m	Caught by three fishermen	Consumed	Baldo & Elizaga (1998); Elizaga (1998a); Elizaga (1998b); Reyes (1998); Morrissey & Elizaga (1999)
12	23 April, 1998	Atawa, Mie, Japan	Female	TL: 5.2 m		Discarded	Yano et al. (1998)
13	30 August, 1998	Manado, North Sulawesi, Indonesia (124°50′3″N 1°46′0″W )	Female?	TL: ~5 m	Observed being attacked by Sperm Whales	Swam away	Pecchioni & Benoldi (1999)
14	1 October, 1999	30 miles west of San Diego, California	Female	TL: ~17 ft [5.18 m]	Caught in a drift gillnet	Released alive in good condition	Petersen (1999)	Four colour photographs taken. Water temperature was 67.2 °F (19.56 °C).
15	19 October, 2001	42 miles northwest of San Diego, California	Male	TL: ~18 ft [5.49 m]	Caught in a drift gillnet	Released alive in good condition	Petersen (2001)	Tissue biopsy collected. Water temperature was 65.8 °F (18.78 °C).
16	18 January, 2002	eastern Indian Ocean (2°17.9′S 88°12.7′E) at 150 m depth	Juvenile male	TL: 2.35 m; WT(estimate): >120 kg	Caught in tuna purse seine	Discarded	Boonyapiwat & Vidthayanon (2002)	Caught by M/V Seafdec. Sea surface temperature was 26.8 °C.
17	20 April, 2002	Natures Valley near Plettenberg Bay, approximately 400 km east of Cape Town, South Africa (33°59′S 23°34′E)	Female	TL: 3.5 m; WT: 300 kg	Found washed ashore	Deposited at Port Elizabeth Museum	[Anonymous] (2002); Smale (2002); Smale et al. (2002)	Collected from the beach by Vic Cockcroft of the Centre for Dolphin Studies. Tissue samples taken. Specimen was examined, measured and dissected by Malcolm Smale and Leonard Compagno. Mould of the animal was used for educational displays.
18	6 January, 2003	Tablon, Cagayan de Oro City, Philippines	?	TL: 4.97 m; BD: 1.01 m	Caught by fisherman	Consumed	Yasay (2003)	Caught by fisherman Eldiposo Pabaida. Personnel of the Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources 10 (BFAR 10) measured the specimen and took several photographs.
19	26 May, 2003	Dana Point, California	?	TL(estimate): 20-25 ft [6-7.6 m]; WT(estimate): 5 tons		Released	Robbins (2003)	Sighted by Scott Caldwell from the Leslie Anne. A rope was temporarily tied around the animal's tail, preventing escape. No photographs taken; unconfirmed sighting.
20	3 July, 2003	800 m off Ki-Lei-Bi, Hualien County, Taiwan	Male	TL: ~2.5 m; WT: 490 kg	Caught in net	Consumed	Mollet (2004)	Caught by fisherman Li. Specimen bought by local seafood store. Stomach was found to be empty.
21	7 August, 2003	Omaezaki, Shizuoka, Japan	Male	TL: 4.3 m	?	Deposited at Tokai University	Furuta (2003)	Prepared for display by taxidermist.
22	8 March, 2004	41.6 nautical miles off Posorja Port, Guayas, Ecuador (2°54.374′S 81°14.858′W)	Male	TL: 4.2 m; WT: ~600 kg	Caught in trammel net	Sent to market	Romero & Cruz (2004)	Caught by small fishing vessel that was unable to bring it aboard. Assisted by the Ecuadorian tuna fish ship Betty Elizabeth. Animal was alive at time of capture and regurgitated food consisting mainly of Engraulis ringens. Surface temperature of the sea was 23.6 °C.
23	13 March, 2004	Gapang Beach, northern tip of Sumatra	Immature male	TL: 1.767 m; WT: 13.82 kg	Found washed ashore	Deposited at Cibinong Museum	Lumba Lumba Dive Centre (2004); White et al. (2004)	Smallest recorded specimen. On public display.
24	19 April, 2004	Ichihara, Tokyo Bay, Japan	Female	TL: 5.63 m; WT: 2,679 lb [1,215 kg]	Found washed ashore	Taxidermy specimen displayed at the Natural History Museum and Institute	Osedo (2004)	Survived several days before dying from stress. Identified by Masaki Miya, curator of fishes at the National History Museum and Institute in Chiba.
25	23 April, 2004	off Ajiro, Shizuoka, Japan	Female	TL: ~4.9 m	Caught by fishermen	Discarded	Furuta (2004)	Japanese newspaper article mentions total length of 5.5-5.6 m and weight of "1", implying over 1 ton.
26	4 November, 2004	Barangay Namocon, Tigbauan, Iloilo, Philippines	Female	TL: 5.04 m; WT: ~1 ton	Stranded on beach	Preserved in tank	[Anonymous] (2004); Bagarinao (2004)	Stranded alive at around 5 pm and died at around 10 pm. Removed from the beach by 16 fishermen. Preserved in 10% formalin in a 1 ton fiberglass tank.
27	23 January, 2005	off Kisei cho Nishiki, Mie, Japan (200 m depth)	Female	TL: 5.28 m	Caught in purse seine	Deposited at Toba Aquarium	Furuta (2005)	Prepared by taxidermist for display at the aquarium.
28	30 January, 2005	Macajalar Bay, Cagayan de Oro, Philippines	Female?	TL: 4.17 m; WT: ~1000 kg	Caught in net	Buried	Elizaga (2005a); Elizaga (2005b); Lumingkit et al. (2005); Ellorin (2005)	Caught by fisherman Sofronio Casañares. It pulled Casañares's paddle-driven banca for around an hour before stopping, apparently due to exhaustion. Specimen was dissected prior to burial.
29	~25 April, 2005	Hualien Port, Hualien County, Taiwan	?	WT: 580 kg	Caught by ocean sunfish driftnetters	Sold at market for human consumption	Wang & Yang (2005a)
30	2 May, 2005	Hualien Port, Hualien County, Taiwan	?	WT: 580 kg	Caught by ocean sunfish driftnetters	Sold at market for human consumption	Wang & Yang (2005b)
31	4 May, 2005	Hualien Port, Hualien County, Taiwan	Female	TL: 7.09 m?; WT: 689 kg	Caught by ocean sunfish driftnetter	Dissected at Taipei Zoo/Academia Sinica	Wang & Yang (2005c)	Presumed to be pregnant based on swollen belly. Measured by Shih-Chu Yang. One ectoparasite collected from specimen.
32	5 May, 2005	off Hualien County, Taiwan	Female	WT: 807 kg	Caught by fishermen	Dissected at Taipei Zoo	Wang & Yang (2005d)	Likely to have been pregnant. Sold directly to Kwung-Tsao Shao of the Academia Sinica.
33	5 June, 2005	off Hualien County, Taiwan	?	WT: 400-500 kg	Caught by fishermen	?	Lin (2005)	Fifth megamouth shark caught in the area within two and a half months.
34	26 January, 2006	4 km off Bayawan City, Negros Oriental, Philippines	Female	TL: 5 m; WT(estimate): 1 ton/750 kg	Accidentally caught in fishing net	Buried	[Anonymous] (2006); Sala (2006)	Towed by pumpboat of the Bayawan City government to the city's boulevard, but died before it could be released. Very small shrimp found in stomach.
35	12 March, 2006	Barra, Macabalan, Cagayan de Oro City, Philippines	Female	TL: 7 ft 5 in [2.26 m]; WT: 60-80 kg	Accidentally caught in gillnet	?	Cabig (2006)	Identified by Edward B. Yasay. Animal died before Yasay could study it.
36	23 March, 2006	China Sea	?	TL: 4.7 m; WT: 650 kg	Caught by fishermen	?	Lin (2006)	Photograph taken.
37	2 May, 2006	Sagami Bay, Yugawara, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan	Female	TL: 5.7 m	Found alive in a fixed shore net	Dissected and exhibited at the Aburatsubo Marine Park in Kanagawa	Burgess (2006)	Could not be initially landed due to adverse wind conditions. Animal was filmed on third day and died soon afterwards.
38	16 November, 2006	Tortugas Bay, Baja California, Mexico	Immature female	TL: 2.149 m; WT: 27 kg	Accidentally caught by commercial shark boat	On display at the Regional Fisheries Center of Ensenada	Castillo-Géniz (2006)	Accidentally caught by crew of the commercial shark boat F/V Corina del Mar. Examined on November 28 by team of technicians and students led by José Leonardo Castillo-Géniz. Samples taken of stomach contents, teeth, and dermal denticles.
39	29 May, 2007	Barangay Tungkob, Minglanilla, Cebu, Philippines	?	TL: 8.2 ft [2.5 m]; WT: ~40-50 kg	Found wounded near shore	?	Parco (2007)	Found alive with head wound; died after several hours.

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External links

• Summary of Megamouth Sharks, Megachasma pelagios Taylor, Compagno & Struhsaker, 198
• Distribution Table of Confirmed Megamouth Shark Sightings
• Megachasma pelagios: The Megamouth Shark