Sharks: Volunteers sought to document animals in Wales' seas

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Sharks: Volunteers sought to document animals in Wales' seas
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Volunteers are needed to help identify sharks, skates and rays as part of a conservation project.

Throughout the summer of 2022, protected and critically endangered species were filmed by remote underwater cameras in a special conservation area off the Llyn Peninsula.Previously for researchers' eyes only, the footage is now available to everyone via the Instant Wild website.

Joanna Barker from the Zoological Society of London said: "We'll have a scientist reviewing all the footage, but the citizen scientists will be the validator. He said: "I'd really like to see an angel shark - that's what the project's all about, they're very rare. I'll be very surprised if we do actually see any and I'd be really excited to see a basking shark.

Fishing crews have helped him find the liveliest spots and he said the footage revealed a previously hidden world.

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