{"id":63841,"date":"2022-07-08T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-07-08T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.beirut.com\/63841\/great-white-shark-caught-by-saida-fisherman"},"modified":"2025-10-15T15:02:33","modified_gmt":"2025-10-15T15:02:33","slug":"great-white-shark-caught-by-saida-fisherman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beirut.com\/en\/63841\/great-white-shark-caught-by-saida-fisherman\/","title":{"rendered":"Great White Shark Caught By Saida Fisherman"},"content":{"rendered":"A rare and largely elusive White Shark has just been caught by a fisherman in Saida after the large fish approached bait intended for fishing. Photos and a video of the catch are found in the tweet below.<br \/>  <br \/>    <blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p lang=\"ar\" dir=\"rtl\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/%D8%B9%D8%A7%D8%AC%D9%84?src=hash&#038;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#<\/a><br><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/%D8%B5%D9%8A%D8%AF%D8%A7?src=hash&#038;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#<\/a><br> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/3YTiTt953X\">https:\/\/t.co\/3YTiTt953X<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/xT4iDKNLBE\">pic.twitter.com\/xT4iDKNLBE<\/a><\/p>\u2014 Annahar (@Annahar) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Annahar\/status\/1545396875272093699?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 8, 2022<\/a><\/blockquote> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>  <br \/>  <br \/>  Fishermen in the area were quick to clarify that this type of shark is not typically found in Lebanon&#8217;s regional waters, and normally follows huge vessels coming from European or African waters. Despite their rep, culling sharks is dangerous and disrupts the marine ecosystems. <br \/>  <br \/>  Safe to say many of us just cancelled our swimming plans this weekend!","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A rare and largely elusive White Shark has just been caught by a fisherman in Saida after the large fish approached bait intended for fishing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":191,"featured_media":427109,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_preview_accessed":0,"footnotes":""},"tags":[1095],"media-embed-type":[],"class_list":["post-63841","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog","tag-jnoub"],"authorship":[74],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.3 (Yoast SEO v27.3) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Great White Shark Caught By Saida Fisherman<\/title>\n<meta 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