Fisherman finds dead shark with stomach full of rubbish and fishing line

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A fisherman discovered a dead shark filled with rubbish and fishing lines.  Wade Papenfus, 26, from Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia, was filming a video of himself speed fishing when he came across the shark at the bottom of the ocean.  The content creator, who frequently documents his island survival adventures and catches his own food, found the shark washed up on the shore of Mentawai Island in Indonesia.

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00:00Literally found this dead shark out there guys

00:13Are you kidding me guys? I literally found this dead shark out there guys, and I don't know what's wrong with him either

00:19Like there's no signs of why he died or anything like that

00:21But I need a rip open the stomach of this shark and see what's inside of it. There might be babies

00:26I don't know. Let's pop her open. I see what you've been eating mate. That's a big chunk of meat right there from a fish

00:32And that's all fishing line. That's probably all just tangled up in its stomach

00:36And maybe you can't digest this fish because it's just not passing through

00:48This is their domain this is where they live

00:50I want to make sure that I respect it because that right there that is nature

00:53It's one of the most precious things on earth and for us to be leaving fishing line around

00:58Seriously, so hard to see man. That is literally heartbreaking a

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