News Headline
Tracking technologies help to identify key marine areas for basking sharks
Source
Mongabay.com
Publication Date
2016-02-17
Recorded at up to 8,000 pounds, the basking shark (Cetorhinus maximus) is the world’s second largest fish species, smaller only than the whale shark (Rhincodon typus). For decades, humans hunted these sharks for their liver oil and until recently, aside from the historical human uses, relatively little was known about this species.