{"id":468,"date":"2017-12-06T13:27:17","date_gmt":"2017-12-06T21:27:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/psrc\/?page_id=468"},"modified":"2021-02-15T17:01:00","modified_gmt":"2021-02-16T01:01:00","slug":"spot-a-basking-shark","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/psrc\/citizen-science\/spot-a-basking-shark\/","title":{"rendered":"Spot a Basking Shark"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/psrc\/citizen-science\/spot-a-basking-shark\/\"><strong>H<\/strong><strong>ome<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/psrc\/citizen-science\/spot-a-basking-shark\/about-the-project\/\">About the Project<\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/psrc\/citizen-science\/spot-a-basking-shark\/about-basking-sharks\/\">About Basking Sharks<\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/psrc\/report-a-sighting\/\">Report a Sighting<\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/psrc\/citizen-science\/spot-a-basking-shark\/479-2\/\">Basking Shark Resources<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Basking sharks are true ocean giants. Reaching lengths of 33 feet (10 m), they are the second largest fish in the world, behind only the whale shark.\u00a0 Basking sharks occur worldwide, yet relatively little is known about where they live and where they go. <strong>We need\u00a0<em>your<\/em>\u00a0help<\/strong>\u00a0to fill in this missing information for the North American Pacific coast!<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_915\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\">\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">\n<\/div>\n<p>Have you seen a basking shark? <a href=\"https:\/\/psrc.mlml.calstate.edu\/current-research\/basking-shark\/report-a-sighting\/\">Click here to report your sighting<\/a> to our research team. Explore our website to get to know these harmless, plankton-eating giants, and learn more about basking shark biology and conservation.<\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0<strong>Spot a Basking Shark Project<\/strong> is an effort by researchers at the Pacific Shark Research Center (PSRC) and the National Marine Fisheries Service\u00a0 (NMFS) to better understand the abundance, distribution and movements of basking sharks in the eastern North Pacific. NMFS has designated the basking shark a \u201cSpecies of Concern\u201d in these waters, and filling vital knowledge gaps will help inform any recovery plan to rebuild the basking shark population.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Home\u00a0|\u00a0About the Project\u00a0|\u00a0About Basking Sharks\u00a0|\u00a0Report a Sighting\u00a0|\u00a0Basking Shark Resources Basking sharks are true ocean giants. Reaching lengths of 33 feet (10 m), they are the second largest fish in the world, behind only the whale shark.\u00a0 Basking sharks occur worldwide, yet relatively little is known about where they live and where they go. We need\u00a0your\u00a0help\u00a0to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":134,"featured_media":0,"parent":464,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-468","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"Pacific Shark Research Center","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/psrc","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/psrc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/468","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/psrc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/psrc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/psrc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/134"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/psrc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=468"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/psrc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/468\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":718,"href":"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/psrc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/468\/revisions\/718"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/psrc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/464"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/psrc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=468"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/psrc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=468"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/psrc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=468"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}