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层拖网渔船在作业中误捕了一头鲸鲨（whale shark），该个体被记录为兼捕渔获物。该物种的相关信息最早通过2021年2月发布于社交媒体的一张照片得以确认，但此次捕获的确切日期尚未明确。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，并随本投稿说明一同附出。本记录已通过《海洋记录》（Marine Record）稿件投稿服务提交，相关服务网址为https://mbr.biomedcentral.com/submission-guidelines/preparing-your-manuscript/marine-record。