Dead Shark in Amagansett Was a Great White

The dead shark found washed up on the beach in Amagansett on Tuesday has been identified as a great white shark by a marine scientist it has been reported by Newsday and CBS Local.

Demian Chapman, an assistant professor of marine science at the School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences at Stony Brook University confirmed the shark was a great white. Professor Chapman and his students assisted in the dissection, which was performed by the U.S. National Marine Fisheries Service.

The dissection did not reveal the cause of the two-year-old male shark’s death and no visible injuries were reported when it was discovered by Ed Michels, the Town of East Hampton’s chief harbormaster.

The dead shark measured approximately four feet in length and weighed 75 pounds. Great white sharks were placed on the U.S. National Marine Fisheries Service prohibited list in the 1990s, forbidding fishermen to catch them and stipulating that any accidentally caught must be released.