english: They were very important to coastal communities, going back hundreds of years, especially around the Claddaghduff, Connemara region where subsistence farmers used to sail out on their hookers and open boats, sometimes way offshore to a place called the Sunfish Bank, about 30 miles west of Achill Island, to kill the basking sharks.
non_english: One su bile i veoma značajne za priobalne zajednice stotinama godina unazad, pre svega u oblastima Kladag, Daf i Konemara, gde su mali zemljoradnici imali običaj da otplove na jedrenjacima i čamcima, katkad daleko od obale, katkad do mesta zvanog Sanfiš Benk, koje se nalazi oko 48 kilometara zapadno od ostrva Akil, kako bi lovili goleme ajkule.