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 https://mbr.biomedcentral.com/submission-guidelines/preparing-your-manuscript/marine-record.2021年2月，摩洛哥卡萨布兰卡渔港的一艘底拖网渔船将一头鲸鲨（whale shark）作为兼捕渔获物捕获，该事件被观测记录。该物种最早通过2021年2月发布于社交媒体的一张照片得到确认，但此次捕获的确切日期暂未明确。为保障举报者的匿名权，我们所能获取的唯一一张照片已做模糊处理，并随本说明一同附上。本记录已通过《Marine Record》期刊的稿件提交服务（https://mbr.biomedcentral.com/submission-guidelines/preparing-your-manuscript/marine-record）完成投稿。