A member of the world's second-largest species of fish was spotted off the North Shore of P.E.I. by a group of people returning from a deep-sea fishing trip this past week.

Don Gauthier and his family spotted the basking shark just about a kilometre and half offshore near New London Bay and French River, at around 8:30 p.m. on Thursday.

"My partner was on her binoculars, just spotting things out, and she saw a bunch of birds just flying around in this one specific area and spotted some fin," Gaut…