| Rank | Fish Name | Scientific name | Maximum Length (meters | Maximum Weight (tonnes) |
| 3 | Basking shark | Cetorhinus maximus | 9.0 | 4.0 |
The basking shark (Cetorhinus maximus) is one of the largest living fish, and one of three plankton-eating sharks along with the whale shark and megamouth shark.
The basking shark is a cosmopolitan migratory species, found in all the world’s temperate oceans.