2021 Okeanos Casablanca fishing port Morocco Rhincodon typus bycatch sighting

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15 March 2023
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Summary

In February 2021 a whale shark was observed to be caught as bycatch by a bottom trawler at Casablanca fishing port, Morocco. The species was first identified in a photo posted in february 2021 on social media. The exact date of the capture is then unknown. The only image we could have was blurred to guarantee the anonymity of the informer and attached to this message. This record was submitted as part of the Marine Record manuscript submission service https://mbr.biomedcentral.com/submission-guidelines/preparing-your-manuscript/marine-record.

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Added to data.gov.uk
2023-02-27
Access contraints
No restrictions to public access
Harvest GUID
a56e9266-9cc0-49ba-876c-8cd28aa18ffa
Extent
Latitude: 33.6038° to 33.6038°
Longitude: -7.6148° to -7.6148°
Spatial reference system
urn:ogc:def:crs:EPSG::3857
Dataset reference date
2023-02-27 (publication)
2021-02-28 (creation)
2021-02-28 (revision)
Frequency of update
asNeeded
Responsible party
Okeanos (originator); Data Archive for Seabed Species and Habitats (DASSH) (custodian)
ISO 19139 resource type
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Metadata language
eng
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