Fishing boat encounters 4 sharks off Newfoundland

A woman says she had not one but four shark encounters while fishing off Conception Bay, Newfoundland, on Monday.

Leona Fahey says she and her family were fishing off Ochre Pit Cove when a shark grabbed a cod fish, just before the fishwas hauled to the surface of the water.

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Monday was the first day commercial fishermen were allowed to get their catch this summer.

Later that same day, Fahey said a shark was accidentally hookedon afishing line.

Fahey saidher husband and his uncle managed to free the shark from the hook.

"He swam off pretty fast so he seemed to be doing OK,"Faheysaid.

Coastal Connections, an eco-tour company in Holyrood, operates a shark conservation program in which blue sharks are tagged and released.

The data is used to help scientists at the Department of Fisheries and Oceans.

The video below shows a curious, female shark they caught on camerain Conception Bay.

Hillary Wainwright, who submitted the video, said the shark was about six feet long.

Blue shark

8 years ago

Duration 0:41

Hillary Wainwright shot this fantastic underwater footage of a blue shark in the waters of Conception Bay South.