John Gilhen, curator emeritus at the Nova Museum, displays the head of a great white shark at the museum in Halifax on Wednesday, Aug. 17, 2011.THE CANADIAN PRESS/Andrew Vaughan
The remnants of a great white shark recently caught in the Bay of Fundy will soon find a home in the Nova Scotia Museum of Natural History.
John Gilhen, the museum's curator emeritus, is working to remove the remaining flesh from the jaw of the shark, which was found trapped in a fishing weir near Economy, N.S., earlier this month.
Mr. Gilhen says the three-metre, 272-kilogram shark is believed to be a juvenile female and was only about half grown when it was caught Aug. 7.
He says it was caught alive, but eventually died.
Mr. Gilhen says the catch is significant because aside from the rare sighting, there's been little physical evidence of great whites near the province.
He says once the jaw is cleaned, the remaining bone and rows of razor-sharp teeth will be framed and placed on public display sometime in mid-September.