Rare Shark Fish-Napped in Britain

British police are on the lookout for aquatic abductors who stole a female marble catshark from a private aquarium in Hampshire earlier this week. The two-foot-long shark and its male partner are the only known breeding partners or marble catsharks in Britain. The police think this may have been a targeted burglary, but one that took a plenty of planning. The fish thieves would have needed a net to catch the shark, a bag to put it in, a box to carry it in, and knowledge of the building's layout—meaning there was either an inside man, or the burglars liked to visit the aquarium. That's a lot of trouble, but the aquarium's owner, Peter Newman, says the female alone could be worth about $20,000 because this kind of catshark is so rare. The breeding pair is worth $100,000 together, he says, so the aquatic abductors probably wanted either to steal ...