Tagging of Pacific Pelagics

WaterDog · 08-22-2006, 02:01 PM

I was watching Roland Martin (yes the bass fisherman) at lunch today on OLN and his show was on the research and tagging of bluefin tuna in the Atlantic. Stanford University and the Monterey Bay Aquarium have been doing this research and at the end of the show they talked about the same research going on in the Pacific.

Some interesting info on this site: TOPP - Fish

The last article is pretty interesting.

Go to the home page and you can look at the live map tracking.

CATCH AND EAT · 08-22-2006, 03:09 PM

My understanding from an Ilwaco checker is that they are tagging some albies out here now. Wondered if anyone knew anything about this. I had one trip where he checked all fish with the fish wand.

Perhaps he though they were a new subspecies of salmon.

Orca · 08-22-2006, 03:39 PM

Yes, they have been (or were) tagging on teh west coast for a while now - http://www.ifish.net/forum/showflat....;Number=212847 .

Here's a recent link. Looks like they may have stopped in '03, but not sure without digging around some more.

http://swfsc.noaa.gov/textblock.aspx...RD&id=1194