This Thursday, around two in the afternoon, a fishing boat mistakenly caught a basking shark on the high seas in Port de la Selva. This is one of the largest fish species in the Mediterranean and the second largest in the world. The shark, weighing more than three tons and measuring over seven meters long, became entangled in the boat's trammel nets and eventually died. The fishermen decided to return to the Empordà port, despite the fact that this decision would cost them their catch, their net, and even their fuel. They reached the port, dragging the weight of the shark so that marine professionals could study it.