Irish Basking Shark Research may lead to monitoring of the health of the oceans. Research on the basking shark, the second largest fish in the world, is of i...

A yellow-tagged shark has been reported from Scotland. This is the second re-sighting from Scotland this year following three during last season. All but one...

A Scottish basking shark group has informed the Irish basking shark group that one of its archival tags has popped off near to Larne on the north east corner...

Although it has been quiet the last two weeks with only occasional sightings of basking sharks reported, the Basking Shark team managed to deploy a further f...

Visual tagging has successfully provided a remarkable insight into the movements of a number of tagged sharks with one yellow-tagged shark off the north coas...

The North west basking shark project took delivery of a newly acquired RIB for the carrying out of tagging and surveying works. The vessel is a 1998 Redbay, ...

While many of us were relaxing on the beaches around the coast of our Atlantic washed Island, a team of Irelands leading marine biologists were hard at work ...

The Inishowen based Basking Shark Project has confirmed that the biggest fish in the ocean has returned to our coastal waters in huge numbers this year. Earl...

A large (6-9m) basking shark was caught in mono-filament netting off Killala at Enniscrone, Killcullen on the 17th of March 2010. Members of the Bluewater Su...

The work of the basking shark research team was featured on a documentary on RTE last night. As part of "Wild Journeys", the tagging and tracking project was...

Irelands most Iconic marine species the basking shark is in need of your assistance. The Basking Shark research team is a group of interested scientists and ...

RTE's new flagship wildlife series is to feature the Irish Basking Shark Project on Easter Sunday the 4th of April. The programme will follow Dr Simon Berrow...

Research on basking sharks, funded by the Heritage Council will be the subject of a live lecture by Dr Simon Berrow under the auspices of TEDx Dublin.� The t...

Dive Ireland invited the Irish Basking shark Project to speak at the Dive Ireland Expo 2010 in County Cavan. Emmett Johnston one of the projects key co-ordin...

However Elaborate, The Law Cannot Restore Life To A Dead Shark! by Edward Fahy, as published in the marine times in January 2010 On 21st October, skipper Ian...

The modern day shark hunter might not be seeking the basking shark for its oil or skin but as those attending the first Irish basking shark seminar soon foun...

A basking shark was recently landed into Howth, Co Dublin after being incidentally caught alive in a prawn trawler. The skipper had hoped to sell it for 10 e...

The first Irish Basking Shark Seminar on the study and conservation of basking sharks in Ireland will be held at the Bord Iascaigh Mara, National Fisheries C...

There is a 200 sterling reward for anyone who finds a basking shark tag thought to be washed up in County Dublin or Wicklow. Our colleagues in the Isle of Ma...

September has seen a return of basking shark sightings around the coast of Inishowen, Co. Donegal with large aggregations reported off Malin head and even as...