Use of Photo-Identification and Mark-Recapture Methodology to Assess Basking Shark (Cetorhinus maximus) Populations

• Published in: PLOS ONE
• Main Authors: Gore, Mauvis A., Frey, Peter H., Ormond, Rupert F., Allan, Holly, Gilkes, Gabriella
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: Public Library of Science 2016
• Subjects: Research Article; Mull; Cetorhinus maximus; Northeast Atlantic
• Online Access: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4773138/; http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26930611; https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0150160

Following centuries of exploitation, basking sharks (Cetorhinus maximus) are considered by IUCN as Endangered in the Northeast Atlantic, where they have now been substantially protected for over two decades. However, the present size of this population remains unknown. We investigated the use of pho...