A megamouth shark, one of the world's most elusive species, was caught, carved up and eaten by fishermen from a town in the Philippines. <br /><br />So rare are megamouth shark sightings that each find is given a number this one, caught by fishermen from the 
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<p align="center"><span style="font-size: 8pt">oh no: The shark that was eaten. pic/afp</span></p></td></tr></tbody></table>coastal town of Donsol, was only the 41st ever seen or captured in the world.<br /><br />But Elson Aca, a WWF representative, said it was butchered and its meat sauteed in coconut milk as a local delicacy, against the organisation's advice.<br /><br />The four-metre, half-tonne megamouth was snared by fishermen trawling for mackerel off the Bicol peninsula on Luzon island.<br /><br />The species, which is named after its metre-wide mouth, is a fairly recent scientific discovery. The first specimen was caught off Hawaii in 1976. 

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A megamouth shark, one of the world's most elusive species, was caught, carved up and eaten by fishermen from a town in the Philippines. 

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