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Smeltdipper
04-12-2002, 02:55 PM
Caught a unclipped chinook today that had a blue tag with a barcode. Looks like the tag was installed long time ago. Any ideas why a "native" fish would be tagged ? Fish was caught near sand island.
Lured In
04-12-2002, 02:58 PM
I know they were taggin fish above Camas for test survival rates of "tangle net" caught fish with varying sizes of tangle nets. They were using jaw tags as I recall.
Jennie@ifish
04-12-2002, 03:31 PM
Yeah, and I heard that Oregon is following through with the study, but Washington DFW failed to come up with the funds to finish their tagging study.
Wazzup with that?
J
Artwo
04-12-2002, 03:53 PM
There was a post a little while back about ODFW and WDFW netting fish and tagging wild fish for a study. They asked for you to record the tag number and call it in. I'll see if I can find the post.
JK
[ 04-12-2002, 03:54 PM: Message edited by: Artwo ]
Smeltdipper
04-12-2002, 04:21 PM
I doubt this is a part of the tangle net study. The tag was attached to the skin behind the gills and has a healed scar. There was no numbers on the tag only a bunch of lines like a UPC bar code. I took a picture and will post after the film is devolped.
NETONE
04-12-2002, 04:39 PM
The tags that are behind the gills are homing devises that lock in on Kwikfish...mayb you just hooked the last one.....
Artwo
04-12-2002, 04:44 PM
Wasn't there something about some contest fish, you bring them in and they scan the bar code.............something about a $1,000,000 grand prize. :wink:
JK
Smeltdipper
04-12-2002, 05:41 PM
Artwo... I wish :blush: )
They would probably throw me in jail afterwards for keeping a native fish.
Rusty
04-12-2002, 07:41 PM
Sorry, but you are all wrong. The tagged native Spring Chinook is part of a little known project hosted by the geniuses at ODFW and WDFG. Once this fish passes a barcode reader at Bonneville Dam, it triggers an automatic shutdown of the Columbia to all but commercial "tangle net" fishermen.
In this way, all of us sportsmen, and sportswomen,
will be better able to support our local economy by purchasing fresh Spring Salmon at, let's say, Safeway!!
Just Kidding--- but I am going to look into a difinitive solution to the gill netting travesty, no matter how long it takes.
Rusty
Corkie Monster
04-12-2002, 08:40 PM
It was my brother :grin:
fish_on
04-12-2002, 10:03 PM
It is called a PIT tag they get scanned when they go through the dam, F&G can also track them with raido devices in the rivers and ocean.
Hoosier Daddy
04-13-2002, 10:29 AM
Post the picture if you can.
It definitely was NOT a PIT tag. PIT tags are internal, like the microchips used in pets. And they do not have a bar code or color associated with them. (Oh, and PIT tags can't be tracked, you have to have the fish and scan it or get it to swim through a scanner, but they do detect them at the dams.)
http://www.iws.org/images/Island%20Fox/PIT_tag.jpg PIT Tag.
This fish may also be from some hatchery somewhere that doesn't or didn't clip their fish when this one left as a youngin'.
You said the tag looked like it had been there awhile too, right?
[ 04-13-2002, 10:31 AM: Message edited by: chnookie ]
PUHLEEEZZ! Let's not refer to them as "Natives". Let's call them "Un-clipped" or "Indian" fish ok? We'll be able to keep them later at the Wind River or Drano anyway! :tongue: :whazzup: