They were also very important to coast communities going back hundreds of years, especially the around the Claddagh, Duff, Connemara region where subsistence farmers used to sail out on their hookers and open boats sometimes way off shore, sometimes to a place called the Sunfish Bank, which is about 30 miles west of Achill Island, to kill the basking sharks.
它们对海岸生态环境的发展也至关重要 让我们追溯到几百年前 尤其是在克拉达地区，达夫地区以及爱尔兰康尼马拉地区 这些都是自给自足的农民们常常出海的地方 他们驶着渔船 有时离岸，有时去到一个被称为“太阳鱼岸”的地方 这个地方位于阿基尔岛西部30英里 去捕杀姥鲨