Second satellite-tagging of whale shark off Gujarat coast
December 28, 2013
Junagadh, 28 December 2013
A female whale shark was successfully satellite-tagged today off Gujarat coast by members of the Whale Shark Conservation Project with the help of the fishing community in Sutrapada, under a joint initiative of the Gujarat Forest Department and the International Fund for Animal Welfare – Wildlife Trust of India (IFAW-WTI), supported by Tata Chemicals Ltd. This is second such tagging. The shark was caught in fishing net, and was released post-tagging.
World’s biggest fish whale sharks, usually travel a distance of over 20,000 km from Australia to the Indian coast in the Arabian Sea every year in winter.Tagging would aid in exploring new facts and data on the whale shark’s habitat and provide information on their migratory pattern, breeding, and survival on the Gujarat coast.The fishing community of Gujarat has in recent years began releasing whale sharks that got caught in their nets. Till date, the release of around 400 whale sharks has been recorded.
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