Fishermen hook 6-foot shark off Long Beach Island

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Fisherman hook 6-foot shark off Long Beach Island
Fisherman hook 6-foot shark off Long Beach Island. Walter Perez has more on Action News at 10 p.m. on June 30, 2019.

LONG BEACH ISLAND, N.J. -- A group of guys fishing off Long Beach Island in New Jersey on Sunday afternoon hooked a six-foot shark.

"Mark G" of Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, said it took over an hour to pull the shark onto shore, hold it down, remove the hook and release it.

The group took a picture with the shark before letting it go.

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