World's biggest fish gets a black-box flight recorder

“The whale shark is worth saving – and we can do something about it,” Brad says. “It is a big, beautiful and charismatic animal, and not dangerous. It is a perfect flagship for the health of the oceans.”

Julian Cribb and Graeme O'Neill

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