Salmon Shark With Strange Parasites Rescued By Seaside Aquarium

It was something the crew at Seaside Aquarium had never seen before. A salmon shark washed up in the Cannon Beach area Wednesday, still alive – which alone was a bit odd. But this salmon shark was covered in a dense layer of parasites in an unusual way.

The Seaside Aquarium is part of the Marine Mammal Stranding Network for the north Oregon coast, responding to baby seals that have wandered up, molting seals, injured sea lions and the like. But they also remove corpses of creatures that spill onto the beach from the tide.

Aquarium manager Keith Chandler said the shark was still living when they found it about 10 a.m. Wednesday. An hour and a half later it was dead, but first Chandler and others tried walking the four-foot salmon shark around the tank in order to get oxygen into its gills...[ZooandAquariumVisitor.com]