News & Events

12-Jan-2010
Round up of results from 2009
17-Dec-2009
Juvenile Basking Shark Being Sold Illegally In Spain: Stern Response from Shark Alliance.
10-Nov-2009
The Latest on the Irish Basking Shark that was nearly sold illegally after being caught as bycatch
19-Oct-2009
Basking Shark By-catch Sale Blocked in Ireland:
18-Oct-2009
Scuba divers see a very late season basking shark on the wreck of the Citrine on 18th October.



A Preliminary Analysis of

(1) The Manx Basking Shark Watch Sightings Reports 2005-2006 (by Tom Felce and Eleanor Stone).

(2) Some Effort-Based Watches performed by Tom and Eleanor for Manx Whale and Dolphin Watch. 

Click here for download of Analysis of MBSW public sightings data 2005-2008. 

(Note from Jackie Hall: Eleanor and Tom have done a wonderful job of making sense of some of the data, very well done and thankyou)!

We are most grateful that the funding for this analysis and the mapping of the MBSW data was paid for by The Manx Government's Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry (DAFF). 

 

Manx Basking Shark Watch 2007