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manta ray whale shark research centre the latest news on the biggest fishes manta ray whale shark research centre the latest news on the biggest fishes about us posted by giantfish june 26 2008 new whale shark paper are the biggest fish getting smaller a new paper on the whale shark population at ningaloo reef in australia has just been published online the study uses over 10 years worth of sighting to show a decline of almost two metres in the average length of the sharks using the area and a concurrent decline in the number of sightings scary stuff the researchers suggest that overfishing is the most likely cause of these rapid changes in population composition see also a recent interview with dr mark meekan from the australian institute of marine science about this paper 1 comment posted in uncategorized posted by giantfish june 26 2008 cownose rays are pretty erm pretty check out these amazing photo s of the huge schools of cownose rays migrating across the gulf of mexico leave a comment posted in uncategorized posted by giantfish june 22 2008 sharkgrid from the clever folk who brought you the ecocean whale shark database the newest innovation in citizen science is the sharkgrid this web based system borrows your computer s spare processing capacity to match digitised whale shark spot patterns allowing whale shark sightings from all over the world to be analysed and mapped in short the longer lunch break you take the more you help whale shark science do it for the fish proving the effectiveness of the ecocean system we had another match returned today of a south african whale shark mz 022 this four metre shark was first photographed at sodwana bay by rob and sam bester of whale shark watch in january 2007 and re sighted in tofo two months later by chris williams from quest underseas very cool leave a comment posted in uncategorized posted by giantfish june 22 2008 u w movies thanks to jason holmberg and the ecocean whale shark forum for pointing this out the first ever underwater footage of a whale shark and manta rays is available online here it s amazing to note that 56 years later leopard print speedo s are still the pinnacle of fashion in contrast harpooning manta rays has gone right out of style 1 comment posted in uncategorized posted by giantfish june 21 2008 this secret life of the whale shark the world s biggest fish was recently disclosed in a scientific world first by two laureates of the rolex awards for enterprise brad norman of australia s murdoch university and professor rory wilson of swansea university in the united kingdom read the full article here leave a comment posted in uncategorized posted by giantfish june 21 2008 and in the places i d rather be file whale shark video produced by rob bester from whale shark watch leave a comment posted in uncategorized posted by giantfish june 20 2008 leaving the nest we ve been uploading all of our whale shark identification photographs to the ecocean whale shark database in the hope that somewhere sometime they d pop up in another country or vice versa well one of them finally has mz 301 was first photographed at sodwana bay by the whale shark watch team rob and sam bester back in february 2007 andy currey took this photo of mz 301 a seven metre male four months later at tofo okay so geographically south africa is pretty much next door however a 500 km swim is nothing to sniff at as desperate science students tend to repeat dogmatically no result is still a result in fact the lack of resightings from further afield with over 300 mozambican sharks in the database is rather intriguing given that tofo s waters resemble a seafood buffet much of the time perhaps they don t need to stray anyway all this is an excellent excuse to go diving at sodwana bay sometime in the not too distant future so we re pretty happy about that sodwana bay is just south of the mozambique border and ponta do oura from where we ve also had a couple of recent resightings of tofo sharks thanks to angie gullan from dolphin encountours here s hoping they swim to the maldives next leave a comment posted in uncategorized categories uncategorized browse monthly archives june 2008 links our main website subscribe entries rss comments rss blog at wordpress com subscribe subscribed manta ray whale shark research centre sign me up already have a wordpress com account log in now privacy manta ray whale shark research centre subscribe subscribed sign up log in report this content view site in reader manage subscriptions collapse this bar loading comments write a comment email required name required website design a site like this with wordpress com get started