2021 Okeanos Casablanca fishing port Morocco Rhincodon typus bycatch sighting

In February 2021 a whale shark was observed to be caught as bycatch by a bottom trawler at Casablanca fishing port, Morocco. The species was first identified in a photo posted in february 2021 on social media. The exact date of the capture is then unknown. The only image we could have was blurred to guarantee the anonymity of the informer and attached to this message. This record was submitted as part of the Marine Record manuscript submission service mbr.biomedcentral.com.