The baking shark is a species that you would normally find along the cost but tend to leave the coast in some seasons. Also you will usually find them in arctic and temperate waters. They like the surface of the water better because that’s where thy feed.

                From a four ton and 27 foot long basking shark can give a fisherman can get 1 ton of meat  and 100 gallons of oil. They go to depths of about 330ft(100 meters). It usually eats thing like plankton, but also known to take teleost egg and deep water shrimp. When they feed in groups, they swim slowly near the surface with their mouth wide open and then forming a hoop like structure   

      Their jaw s filled with rows of hundreds of tiny teeth. The center of their jaw has teeth that are more triangular. The out side of their jaw has teeth that are recurved and are shaped like a cone instead of being triangular. Most fishing for the basking has stopped except in Japan and China.