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And there are sharks.
(Metallic drumming) (Chiming) (Rattling) (Drumming) (Applause) Basking sharks are awesome creatures.
We're very lucky in Ireland, we have plenty of basking sharks and plenty of opportunities to study them.
They were very important to coastal communities, going back hundreds of years, especially around the Claddaghduff, Connemara region where subsistence farmers used to sail out on their hookers and open boats, sometimes way offshore to a place called the Sunfish Bank, about 30 miles west of Achill Island, to kill the basking sharks.
"Sunfish" is one of the words for basking sharks.
Sharks used to come into the bay, and the fishermen would tie a net off the headland, string it out, an old Manila net, and as the shark came round, it would hit the net, the net would collapse on it.
And then they'd tow the sharks back to Purteen Harbour, boil them up, use the oil.
They also used the flesh as well, for fertilizer and also would fin the sharks.
We're often frightened of sharks, thanks to "Jaws."
Maybe five or six people get killed by sharks every year.
We kill about 100 million sharks a year.
So I don't know what the balance is, but I think sharks have more right to be fearful of us than we have of them.
As you can see here, it peaked in the '50s, where they were killing 1,500 sharks a year.
They killed about 12,000 sharks within this period, literally just by stringing a Manila rope off the tip of Keem Bay up in Achill Island.
Sharks were still killed up into the mid-80s, especially out of places like Dunmore East in County Waterford.
About two and a half, 3,000 sharks were killed up till '85, mainly by Norwegian vessels.
The importance of basking sharks to the coast communities is recognized through the language.
There's great concern that basking sharks are depleted all throughout the world.
It's been suggested that these sharks would make fantastic indicators of climate change, as they're basically continuous plankton recorders, swimming around with their mouth open.
They're not protected in Ireland; in fact, they have no legislative status in Ireland whatsoever, despite our importance for the species and also the historical context within which basking sharks reside.
I only found out last year, at a conference on the Isle of Man, just how unusual it is to live somewhere where basking sharks regularly, frequently and predictably come to the surface to "bask."
It's a fantastic opportunity for a scientist to see and experience basking sharks.
We tagged 105 sharks last summer.
And sharks and fish are underwater most of the time, so this tag actually works out the locations of shark, depending on the timing and the setting of the sun, plus water temperature and depth.
Another colleague in the States tagged about 20 sharks off Massachusetts.
We thought basking sharks were temperate animals and lived in our latitudes, but in actual fact, they're obviously crossing the equator as well.
So very simple things like that, we're trying to learn about basking sharks.
One thing that I think is a very surprising and strange thing is just how low the genetic diversity of sharks is.
So when they looked at the genetics of basking sharks, they found that the diversity was incredibly low.
I think this means they're all sharks and they've come from a common ancestry.
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