There's only 8,000 basking shark females in the world?

If you're more interested, we have a basking shark website now just set up.

Probably the best documented basking shark fishery in the world is that from Achill Island.

A third of the size of the basking shark is their liver, and it's full of oil.

The black, you can't really see this, but these are Norwegian basking shark hunting vessels, and the black line in the crow's nest signifies this is a shark vessel rather than a whaling vessel.

And being able to tell the gender of a shark has got very important for things like policing the trade in basking shark and other species through societies, because it is illegal to trade any sharks.

And they amplified it and they tested it and they found, yes, this was actually basking shark DNA, which was got from the slime.

They're the second largest fish in the world, they're almost extinct, and we know almost nothing about them. At TEDxDublin, Simon Berrow describes the fascinating basking shark , and the exceptional and wonderfully low tech ways he's learning enough to save them.

If you look at nucleotide diversity, which is more genetics that are passed on through parents, you can see that basking sharks, if you look at the first study, was an order of magnitude less diversity than other shark species.

Man Bites Shark

Basking sharks are awesome creatures. They are just magnificent.

And sunfish is one of the words for basking sharks.

He's a great white shark.

Sherman's up in shark heaven.

There's great concern that basking sharks are depleted all throughout the world.

We didn't see a single shark.

We can save the white shark.

So very simple things like that, we're trying to learn about basking sharks.

Before 2006, we had no idea of the genetic variability of basking sharks.

A study by the Australian Marine Institute found that Palau s shark diving industry is worth far more than its shark fishing industry. A single reef shark that frequents major dive sites in Palau is worth roughly 179,000 annually, or 1.9 million over its lifetime the same shark would be worth about 108 dead.

Jim Toomey Learning from Sherman the shark

It became known as Simon's shark slime.

Look at that lovely, black shark slime.

I mean, just incredible to see bunches of gharial basking on the river again.

The importance of basking sharks to the coast communities is recognized through the language.

That's a 12 foot long giant sixgill shark.

Turns out that this is a Galapagos Shark.

It actually basks. It's a slow moving shark.

And I flew over a lagoon with a shark in it, and that was the day that my comic strip about a shark was born.

And this represents their habit of basking on the surface when the sun is out.

And we thought that basking sharks were temperate animals and only lived in our latitude.

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No one's ever done it without a shark cage.

Go up in your boat and tag the shark.

So it does seem to be that basking sharks, for some reason, have incredibly low diversity.

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The species of shark responsible for the attack was unknown.

My characters are my lead character's a shark named Sherman.

Meanwhile, the other characters are talking about shark fin soup.

This is a very sort of un shark like photograph.

They found that there was no genetic differentiation between any of the world's oceans of basking sharks.

So this scavenger comes in, which is a giant sixgill shark.

I had to kill my main character, who is a shark.

So I was thinking that must have come from the shark.

So you can quite easily tell the gender of the shark.