Researchers deploy new tagging devices to endangered basking sharks off west Cork Project to help understand behaviour and physiology of Ireland’s gentle sea giants
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Prof Nick Payne and PhD researcher Haley Dolton from Trinity College Dublin’s school of natural sciences have returned from a week on the waves in which they managed to apply tags to four sharks
Researchers from Trinity College Dublin have begun deploying a new form of tagging device on basking sharks off west Cork in a bid to learn more about the behaviour of the endangered species.
Known as Ireland’s gentle giants of the sea – some of which grow to 12 metres in length – the species is the second-largest shark in the world, but its conservation status was changed from vulnerable to endangered two years ago.