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| 796.1 | TAGGED STRIPERS | SCOMAN::BING | | Wed Jul 13 1988 04:14 | 11 |
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ABOUT A MONTH AGO I CAUGHT A SHORT STRIPER THAT WAS TAGGED. THERE
WAS A TELEPHONE NUMBER ON THE TAG, I CALLED IT AND TOLD THEM WHEREI
CAUGHT THE FISH AND THEY IN TURN SENT ME A HAT AND SOME INFO ON
THE BASS BEFORE IT WAS RELEASED. I KNOW OF A FEW LIKE THAT, THAT
WERE TAKEN DOWN CAPE COD.
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| 796.2 | | MTBLUE::OKERHOLM_PAU | | Mon Jul 18 1988 16:10 | 16 |
| Bagel,
I am involved in NOAA's Shark tagging program and I belive that
they have programs for Stripers and Blues also. I'll get the
address at home. I sent for a tagging kit which contained several
tags, a tagging needle, info cards (which you send to NOAA) and
several booklets on how to tag and how to identify various species
of Sharks. With Sharks you usually estimate the length by comparing
the fish to premeasured sections of the boat and the weight is derived
from charts provided with the kit. I imagine smaller species could
be measured against marks on the butt of your surf rod, or even
a tape measure secured to it.
As far as feedback is concerned, I receive reports on the tagging
program several times a year. If one of your tagged fish is recaptured
I am told that you will receive all kinds of info on where, when etc.
This hasn't occurred for me yet.
Paul
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| 796.3 | Shark tagging info? | SMURF::AMATO | | Wed Jul 20 1988 14:06 | 10 |
| Paul,
Could you post the addesss to get tagging information for sharks?
Like I mentioned at the talk, I'm starting vacation Jul 31. Are
you going to be around the 1st week of Aug, or are you definitely
heading to your camp? If you're around, Capt Baitfish and I are
probably going to try to get out for a shark/tuna trip up here. Maybe
we can hook up out there?
Joe A.
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| 796.4 | Things are looking up for August | MTBLUE::OKERHOLM_PAU | | Thu Jul 21 1988 09:07 | 12 |
| Joe,
Its still not definite but its looking better for week 1 August.
Currently we are planning "a few days at the camp" (a major
breakthrough :^) ). As of now I will probably be fishing both weekends
and I may get a day in during the week as well. I'll let you know
for sure by Monday at the latest. Do you have your itinery planned
yet?
Paul
P.S. I'll get the tagging info at home tonight and post it. I'll
also mail you the numbers for a couple of offshore spots where I've
gone Shark fishing (and spotted Tuna) in the greater Cape Elizabeth
area.
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| 796.5 | Paul, see you on Jeffries? | SMURF::AMATO | | Thu Jul 21 1988 09:39 | 11 |
| Thanks Paul. It looks like the weekend of Jul 30-31 is out. I've
gotta go to a christining. I'm going to tell my brother next time
he has a kid, to do it in the winter :-). Anyway, that'll leave
me the week to try some fishing up there. I want to try at least
1 day handlining, 1 day trolling for school bluefin (that'll be
the day with the wife on the boat) and 1 day sharking. I might
be able to get out 1 other day also. I'm still looking for mooring's
in the Portsmouth area and should have a handle on that next week.
Hope we can meet out there at least 1 time.
Joe
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| 796.6 | Shark Tagging Info | RANGLY::OKERHOLM_PAU | | Fri Jul 22 1988 08:57 | 32 |
| Joe,
The address where I send the tags is:
National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration
National Marine Fisheries Service
Naragansett Laboratory
RR 7, South Ferry Road
Narragansett, Rhode Island 02884
The source of the newsletter that I receive is:
National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration
National Marine Fisheries Service
Northeast Fisheries Service
Narragansett, Rhode Island 02882
I don't know which address was the original point of entry for
the tagging program but I suspect that the Northeast Fisheries
Service is the administrative branch and would be the better place
to start. The lab is probably the data processing point.
Bagel - I would think that the NFS branch could also supply you
with info in other tagging programs.
Re wk 1 Aug>
I've got some clarification on my plans. Looks like I can
make it between Thurs 8/4 and Sunday 8/7. I'll send mail so we can
work out the details.
Paul
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| 796.7 | Recaptured Shark | DNEAST::OKERHOLM_PAU | | Fri Apr 14 1989 18:05 | 13 |
| I got something interesting in the mail today; a hat from NOAA.
One of the blue sharks I tagged last year was caught by a gillnetter
in Venezuela. How about that!
I had tagged it on July 31 last Summer and it was recaptured
on March 12. It had traveled almost 2,000 miles in the 224 days
after release.
The hat is kind of nice - light blue corderoy (sp?) with a picture
of a shark and the words MARINE RESEARCH TAGGING PROGRAM embroidered
on it. The hat is available because of a donation from our own Fisherman
magazine.
Makes me feel good, like I contributed something to the sport.
Paul
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| 796.8 | Good job | WEDOIT::JOYCE | | Tue Apr 18 1989 08:15 | 5 |
| Sounds like you did your part, tag and release. What stinks is the
fish was caught by a gillnetter in Venezuela. I'm sure it was still
alive when he tagged and released it????
Steve
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| 796.9 | Info on "Tagged" Largemouth??? | 2CRAZY::WHITES | | Tue May 21 1991 16:18 | 21 |
| My son and I were out fishing Webster Lake this weekend, and we landed
a small Largemouth ~ 13" that had a small red plastic "tag" for lack of
a better word through its back, just behind the dorsal fin. It looked
something like this:
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There was no writing or info on it. The positioning of had caused the
top part of the fish's tail to be rubbed raw by the loose end of the
tag.
I cut the tag off, and released the fish in hopes that its tail (and
back) would heal up over time.
Any clues as to what group might have tagged the fish in this manner,
and what it was meant to designate?
Thanks,
Jack
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| 796.10 | | SOFBAS::SULLIVAN | | Thu May 23 1991 10:51 | 8 |
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You dummy Jack!
The fish's tail was beat up from the spawn! I find it hard to belive
that a tag would do that. Our club tags 60% of all fish we catch and
unless the fish shrank about 5" the tag would never find the tail
- Slam
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| 796.11 | why? | DONMAC::MACINTYRE | Terminal Angler | Thu May 23 1991 11:55 | 1 |
| Why does your club tag the fish? -donmac
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| 796.12 | ditto | GEMVAX::HICKSCOURANT | | Thu May 23 1991 11:56 | 1 |
| ditto .11
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| 796.13 | seems like grandstanding to me... | KAHALA::PRESTON | Beastly Rotter in residence | Thu May 23 1991 13:09 | 7 |
| I bet it's to scare (coerce? inspire?) people into releasing the fish...
..or maybe to spoil the fun of catching it by demonstrating that someone
else already caught him first.
Ed
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| 796.14 | | IE0005::PUISHYS | Bob Puishys | Thu May 23 1991 14:01 | 12 |
| Not to jump in on Sully, But, I have caught one of his clubs taged bass. It had
a green tag on it. They tag fish for thier records in the hopes that
people who would catch the fish and eat it may let it go because of the tag.
The state about 5 years ago tag bass in that area with red tags. But they
as well as Sullys have writing on them. CLEAN THE SCUM off it and see
if there is any writing.
Also about 4 years ago the state had clubs tag fish for them for lake
censous.
Bassin Bob
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| 796.15 | ex | ICARUS::WHITES | | Thu May 23 1991 14:09 | 29 |
| Yo - Slam,
The tag went through the fishes body just behind the top fin, and the
plastic had rubbed the fish raw at the top front part of the tail, where
it joins the main body.
Spot rubbed raw
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/--------\ | /-------
/ \ | / |
_________/ \_______v/ |
/ 0 Tag hole -----> O |
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(ok - so VTs aren't that good for illustrations...)
This fish's woounds weren't from spawning...
A "sportsman" did this...
Why does your club tag fish?
Jack
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| 796.16 | Here it is | SOFBAS::SULLIVAN | | Thu May 23 1991 14:12 | 27 |
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Ok folks.
Tagging...
Belive it or not Don & Johnny H-C, we record length and weight of all
the quality fish we catch. We have tags bearing our club name and
each is individually numbered and the data is individually recorded
for each fish.
As in a previous reply, we hope that when someone catches a tagged
fish they would think twice before keeping it and release it. We have
had numurous calls this year of anglers catching fish with our tags.
Our club is a member of the federation and it's easy to get my phone
number out of the travel guide. We have verified data on 15 of the
45 fish we caught last year. We tabualte our records and at the end
of the year send our findings (these are factual length weight records
and date of catch reported from the anglers. These are not opinions!)
to the state. We got 5 calls from anglers at manchaug including
Bass'in Bob Puishy's who caught one of our fish. Bob as many BASS
anglers do recorded the lenght/weight and released it. We were happy
to see that the fish a year ago and has grown almost 2" and gained
3/4 of a pound. All the fish in Manchaug have all grown in size
and weight since last caught. 1 fish there has been caught 6 times
that I know of in the last year and 1/2. He was even caught twice
through the ice!! What a dummy!!
- Slam
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