Dead shark washes up on Adelaide beach
Mystery surrounds a shark's death after it was seen on an Adelaide beach yesterday.
The shark washed up south of the jetty on Grange Beach.
Fisheries officers came to collect the carcass, which was identified as that of a bronze whaler.
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A dead bronze whaler shark was found washed up on an Adelaide beach. 9News
The carcase was taken for an autopsy. 9News
The carcase was taken away for an autopsy.
It will then be handed over to the SA Research and Development Institute.
According to South Australia's Department of Primary Industries and Regions, bronze whalers are most commonly seen and caught off the state's coast between spring and autumn.
They can grow to 3.2m in length and live for up to 32 years.
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