Some of the income from shark tourism is ploughed back into whale shark research. The report states that the entire cost of a survey of whale shark migration in the eastern Indian Ocean came from Western Australian tourist income.
澳洲賞鯊旅遊的收入，更反過來回饋鯨鯊的研究，西澳的報告指出，整個東印度洋鯨鯊洄游的調查經費，都來自西澳一地旅遊的收入。