The New York Aquarium has lost a 43-year-old raggedtooth shark called Bertha Aquarium Director Jon Forrest Dohlin said Bertha “was a great animal and a symbol for the plight of all sharks in the wild.”  

The facility, which is run by the Wildlife Conservation Society, says Bertha may have been the longest living raggedtooth shark in an aquarium.

It says the average lifespan of the species is not actually known. 

Bertha was about 7 feet-long and weighed 270 pounds. She was brought to the New York Aquarium in 1965 by a local fisherman.