Giant whale shark found

measuring more than twelve feet in the Pakistani port city of Karachi coast, washed by the Arabian Sea.

Pakistani television broadcast images of a curious crowd rushed to the port to see how the animal drew heavy water.

The owner of the farm Charai where the shark was found, did not show too sorry for the fish and  sold it for 1.7 million rupees ($ 18,755), about 20 times more than expected to get to the top.

The whale shark is considered the largest fish and can sometimes grow to over 12 meters long.

According to the book Animal Facts and Feats, a sort of Guinness World Records of animals, of which the largest specimen on record was caught in 1947, also near Karachi, and measured 12'65 meters long and weighed 21.5 tons.