Ireland must protect its endangered basking sharks, urge global experts

Basking sharks are the world’s second largest shark and fish. Photo: Nigel Motyer

A group of international scientists is marking world ocean day by calling for legal protection of the basking shark in Irish waters.

Ireland has a global responsibility to protect the world’s second largest shark and fish – known as Liabhán chor gréine, or the “great fish of the sun” – the scientists state.