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On 17 October 2015, Facebook user Daniel Bailey posted a photograph purportedly showing a rare freshwater Marquette shark that was caught off the coast of a dog beach in Muskegon, Michigan: The above-displayed photograph picked up traction when it was noticed by fans of the Lake Michigan Whale Migration Station, a humorous Facebook group that shares digitally manipulated photographs of whales allegedly living in Lake Michigan. Bailey's photograph, however, was not the product of digital manipulation. It's a real photograph, but it does not show a rare freshwater Marquette shark caught off the coast of a dog park in Michigan. The photograph actually depicts Earnie Polk, a fisherman who has garnered a reputation for landing big sharks from the shore, and a 12 foot tiger shark he caught in February 2015 in Navarre Beach, Florida: There is no such thing as a freshwater Marquette shark. While we're at it, Orca whales are not attacking bears along a river in Alaska, and there are no whales off the coast of Chicago.
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