A birthday present with a bite to it.

The 13-foot great white shark snagged by a San Pedro fisherman two weeks ago has finally found a home.

At least, its jaws have.

John Redd purchased the shark’s head as a birthday gift for his wife, Sharon, a collector of shark jaws. The $500 sale brought a sigh of relief to Galletti Bros. Seafoods on Terminal Island, where manager Dino Lauro spent a week trying to get rid of the shark on behalf of the fisherman who caught it.

Sharon Redd began her collection of shark jaws while a volunteer at Marineland. There she learned how to preserve and clean the jaws for display at the park. When Marineland closed last year, she wound up with the collection.

When she heard about the capture of the great white, she wished aloud that she could have its jaws. Her husband complied.

The great white’s jaws, which measure about 25 inches in diameter, will be by far the largest of the dozen or so jaws in the Redd collection. Most of them are displayed in a bookcase in the family room, but Sharon Redd said she is certain the great white’s jaws won’t fit there. Finding a spot for them is not an immediate necessity, however, because Sharon Redd said the jaws will take at least 72 hours to clean.

“They are now taking up the entire space in my Deepfreeze,” she said, acknowledging, “it’s a strange hobby.” The Redds live in the South Bay, but Sharon Redd asked that their community not be disclosed. “Some people would kill to get their hands on shark’s jaws,” she explained.