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Title: Tagged Basking Shark. Scotland, UK
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A tagged basking shark (Ceterhinus maximus) feeding on plankton in the surface waters around the island of Coll, Inner Hebrides, Scotland. The photograph was taken in Scotland on 29th June 2011, the shark had been tagged of Ireland (off the Blasket Islands, Co Kerry, South West Ireland) on the 20th April 2011. The tag, number 209, reads "Please report to Irish Basking Shark Project, www.baskingshark.ie". North East Atlantic Ocean.
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- basking shark: Ceterhinus maximus
- Basking Sharks: Cetorhinidae
- British Isles
- Cartilaginous Fishes: Chondrichthyes
- Elasmobranchs: Elasmobranchii
- Fishes
- Great Britain
- Inner Hebrides
- Island of Coll
- Mackerel Sharks: Lamniformes
- Marine Life
- North Atlantic Ocean
- Scotland
- Sharks
- temperate
- UK
- United Kingdom
- wide angle
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