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• AcCV \txrlt; :•?.'•*Kfit-1*ila*tfth.jIt,,fe[i 5. IIUrei*►eisIT'S A SHARKS ALRIGHT wlr the judgmentof Dr. K. Drowhan, at right/ as he inspected♦he mysteryRickey; at leftV-taken from Crescent Lake etrlier this y^eek. Shown with him are P;froze the shark lihtil identification could be made/ and Lloyd Boak. the ihifk tras taken Friday to the U of M for further study.y. lt;Page 5 — Tha Portage la Prairie MANITOBA LEADER Thursday, June 22, 1961A shark in Crescent Lake? Impossible’But a fish expert sOys it’s so. The mystery fish taken from the lake early last week by a young Portager is a ihembei1 of the shark- faniily — one with a price on its head,- by the Way.Dr. Ken Dowman of the fisheries department and a director of the Manitoba Msh and Game Association, today identified the dark monster which floundered and died on a mud bank in thelkke..The specimen was taken by Walter Lamirande of 515 Second street north west It was tenat-ively identified Friday by Dr. Dowhan as a dog-fish sHd?k.The catch was taken by Dr.Permission was given to Walter Lamirande for him to take the shark back to Winnipeg for.//.. ,. . ... , ' r ...identification and study at* the University.PRAIRIE SALES AND SERVICE Intirntfional Harvester * fSfudtbakar Cars — Trucks?hona 7*3131 - Portsgs la Prairtar.-Texpected to . find*•“but this is definately of the shark family.” He pointed out many of the sha rk characteristics such as the mouth, triangular fins, the hide, etc., and said it was a salt water fish..How did.it get into Crescent So far, that part of the hasn’t been solved but the only possible solution is thatsome one threw it there.x • ! ••• .. • »•The dog-fish shark was des-as destructive With a bounty on its; head at the west coast where it damages the salmon nets.But whether this particular came from the Pacific, Atlantic or the Gulf of Mexico has yet ter be determined.Julian Dwornick of 36 Sixth street north west in Portage, a graduate fish expert said Friday the speciman may be a spiny-dog-fish — or to be more exact, a squalus acanphias.It was described as destruct-i- •ive to herring and other food fishes and grows to a length of three to four feet — which fits• m ►the description of that takenfrom Crescent Lake.* 9 ' * .* * •Portage la Prairie’s first shark was frozen solid for the Daily Graphic by P. Rickey of the Western Processing and Cold Storage plant on Main Street and preserved until Dr. Drow-han arrived to identify it.M
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Portage La Prairie Leader
Portage La Prairie, Manitoba, CA
Thu, Jun 22, 1961
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