A basking
shark tagging and tracking project is to be extended for another year.
Last year,
eight sharks were satellite tagged off Scotland
One of the
sharks was tracked to the west coast of Portugal
and another swam 1,864 miles (3,000km) to the Canary
Islands off west Africa.
Scottish
Natural Heritage (SNH) and the University
of Exeter
The project
aims to increase understand of the behaviour of the fish which gather in large
numbers around the islands of Coll, Tiree and Canna every summer.
The work is
also part of a wider programme of marine research led by SNH and Scottish
government agency Marine Scotland.
Results from
the tagging project will help the government decide whether a Marine Protected
Area should be put in place to safeguard the sharks and balance environmental
interests with industry and recreation.
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