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 largest predator in Norwegian waters is the sperm whale, and the largest fish is the basking shark.

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.

Preparation Genuine shark fin soup or stew is made with shark fins obtained from any of a variety of shark species.

Man Bites Shark

Larger sharks, such as the tiger shark and great white shark, may attack them.

Basking sharks are awesome creatures. They are just magnificent.

And sunfish is one of the words for basking sharks.

In 2011, U.S. President Barack Obama signed the Shark Conservation Act, closing loopholes used to obtain shark fins.

It includes some of the most familiar species of sharks, such as the great white shark, as well as more unusual representatives, such as the goblin shark and the megamouth shark.

It became known as Simon's shark slime.

Look at that lovely, black shark slime.

Jim Toomey Learning from Sherman the shark

On 13 March 2004, a specimen of the rare and unusual species of shark, megamouth shark, was washed ashore on Gapang beach.

Also, anecdotal evidence points to a worldwide drop in shark fin prices and a move away from shark fishing in parts of Africa.

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

Go up in your boat and tag the shark.

My older brother borrowed money from a loan shark.

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

And you wouldn t say it either, as I was basking in the sun at the Solidere Marina.

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

Tourists at the nearby café mistakenly take it for a shark.

And it's a fantastic opportunity in science to see and experience basking sharks, and they are awesome creatures.

So when they looked at the genetics of basking sharks, they found that the diversity was incredibly low.

BERLIN Europe and its national governments are basking in their new capacity to act and not without reason.

Simon Berrow How do you save a shark you know nothing about?

We use a pole camera on the boat to actually film shark.

One is to try and work out the gender of the shark.

So this is possibly going to be my legacy Simon's shark slime.

In the past, Illinois has been a large importer of shark fins.

The varieties landed are tuna, bonito, mackerel, squid, shark, lobster and shrimp.

So by just rubbing the mop handle down the shark as it swam under the boat you see, here's a shark that's running under the boat here we managed to collect slime.

And we're very lucky in Ireland, we have plenty of basking sharks and plenty of opportunities to study them.

In 2000, there were 79 shark attacks reported worldwide, 11 of them fatal.

In sharks, it protects their eyes while the shark strikes at its prey.

Stromatolites can form in this way (see Shark Bay for a modern example).

The annual take of angel shark in 1977 was an estimated 147 kg.

But before I went out to photograph this component, I sort of wrestled with the notion of how do you make a picture of a dead shark that will resonate with readers You know, I think there's still a lot of people out there who think the only good shark is a dead shark.

To swim to the other island, Sami had to cross a shark infested lagoon.