Fishermen ‘catch’ cow at sea

When fishermen at Chorkor, a fishing community in Accra, cast their net for a catch Wednesday morning and experienced some heaviness in the net, their joy was that they had a bumper catch, only for it to turn out that the heavy thing in the net was a bull.

That incident caused a stir in the community, as children, market women and people from all walks of life trooped to the beach to catch a glimpse of the mysterious bull caught at sea.

The huge brown bull with large horns appeared healthy when it was caught and occasionally ‘mooed,’ much to the surprise of onlookers who could not keep their distance away from the ‘wonder bull’.

That brings to two the number of animals with land habitationcaught at sea by fishermen this year.

The first one, a deer, was trapped in the fishing net of fishermen at Ekon in the Central Region http://www.ghanaweb.com/GhanaHomePage/NewsArchive/artikel.php?ID=297814 .

According to eyewitnesses, the fishermen had cast the net around 3 a.m. Wednesday and returned to pull out their catch around 6.30 a.m.

Overjoyed by the prospect of a heavy catch, they pulled the net amidst singing, but their excitement turned into astonishment when they discovered a bull in the net, instead of a shoal of fish.

The mysterious bull was subsequently drawn to the sea shore. Eyewitness

Narrating the incident to the Daily Graphic , Mr Samuel Quaye of the Kaka Fishing Group, the group whose net caught the animal, said the group set off for fishing and cast the net around 3 a.m.

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