Shark ID Please

[matts1w]

Some friends of mine hooked into this for a few seconds snapper fishing off Tampa in about 60 feet of water. I know it is not a great picture. Any ideas?

Thanks in advance!

 

[sphyrnidus]

It could be a Tresher shark. They have the fins like that and the long tail.

 

[matts1w]

They called it a thresher...but to me the head in the pic seems long and pointy. I always picture threshers with a stubby head close to its fins. This guy seems much longer.

Oh, good news is shark broke off pretty quick and is certainly doing fine now.

 

[LowVizWiz]

The color, shape of the head and length of the tail are not typical of a thresher shark.
It's hard to tell what type of shark it is from that picture, but I can tell it is not a thresher shark.

 

[diversteve]

Lemon or an Oceanic White Tip? Hard to tell from that photo but the pectoral fins would be rounded and end in white on the latter.

 

[FinnMom]

I was thinking lemon shark. They do catch threshers off of Tampa but that is typically in very deep water. It also doesn't look like a thresher, esp. the color (which is quite plain from the photo).