\n\t\t\t\t\t\tCrews removed a hammerhead shark that was found along Naples Beach on Thursday morning.The Naples Police Department contacted the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission after it was found near 15th Avenue South at approximately 8:30 a.m. NPD said the shark was estimated to weigh about 300 pounds, and it was pulled to the 17th Avenue South beach end.A City of Naples Parks and Parkways boom crew helped FWC load the shark into one of their trucks for further investigation. NPD said the shark was already dead when it was found.FWC said the great hammerhead shark was transported to an FWC lab for a necropsy.If you encounter fish kills or dead sharks, FWC advises the public to reach out to its fish kill hotline by calling 1-800-636-0511. You can also make a report by filling out a form here.DOWNLOAD\u202fthe free\u202fGulf Coast News app\u202ffor your latest news and alerts on breaking news, weather, sports, entertainment, and more on your phone or tablet. And check out the Very Local Gulf Coast app to stream news, entertainment and original programming on your TV.\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
\t\t\t\t\t\tNAPLES, Fla. \u2014<\/strong> \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n Crews removed a hammerhead shark that was found along Naples Beach on Thursday morning.<\/p>\n The Naples Police Department contacted the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission after it was found near 15th Avenue South at approximately 8:30 a.m. NPD said the shark was estimated to weigh about 300 pounds, and it was pulled to the 17th Avenue South beach end.<\/p>\n A City of Naples Parks and Parkways boom crew helped FWC load the shark into one of their trucks for further investigation. NPD said the shark was already dead when it was found.<\/p>\n FWC said the great hammerhead shark was transported to an FWC lab for a necropsy.<\/p>\n If you encounter fish kills or dead sharks, FWC advises the public to reach out to its fish kill hotline by calling 1-800-636-0511. You can also make a report by filling out a form here<\/a>.<\/p>\n DOWNLOAD<\/strong>\u202fthe free\u202fGulf Coast News app<\/a>\u202ffor your latest news and alerts on breaking news, weather, sports, entertainment, and more on your phone or tablet. And check out the Very Local Gulf Coast app<\/a> to stream news, entertainment and original programming on your TV.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Crews removed a hammerhead shark that was found along Naples Beach on Thursday morning.The Naples Police Department contacted…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":684395,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[27],"tags":[22531,3425,12883,106682,171,723,84934,287348,43917,90159,194346,18085,78167,287346,287350,287347,1408,287349,159,11539,1926,40031,67,132,68,313,837],"class_list":["post-684394","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-alert","tag-animals","tag-beach","tag-collier-county","tag-entertainment","tag-florida","tag-florida-fish-and-wildlife-conservation-commission","tag-further-investigation","tag-fwc","tag-gulf-coast-news","tag-hammerhead-shark","tag-late-news","tag-more-detail","tag-naples-beach","tag-naples-parks","tag-naples-police-department","tag-official","tag-parkways-boom-crew","tag-science","tag-shark","tag-sport","tag-truck","tag-united-states","tag-unitedstates","tag-us","tag-weather","tag-wildlife"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116298468896095823","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/684394","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=684394"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/684394\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/684395"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=684394"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=684394"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=684394"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}