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Young Salt · 12-06-2002, 08:07 AM

Just this year i caught a striper with a tag in it. The tag was a yellow one, from the American Littorial Society based in New Jersey. I kept the tag, threw the fish back, and called the # on the tag once i got home. I was told the fish was tagged on 5-11-02. I caught the fish on 6-15-02....not even a month later, and only a couple hundred yards from where it was tagged!

The ALS sent me a brocure explaning how "I can help with the tagging program." They charge you $6 for a 'tag kit' with 10 tags, a needle, and cards to be sent back....the only catch is that for you to be able to buy the tags, you must be a member, which will set you back $30. I would've signed up for the price of the tags, but for them to have the nerve to try and charge me a $30 fee to have the privilege to help them and their study was too much for me.

12-06-2002, 08:07 AM	#7
Young Salt Salt of the Earth iTrader: (0) Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: Suburbia, RI Posts: 1,025	Just this year i caught a striper with a tag in it. The tag was a yellow one, from the American Littorial Society based in New Jersey. I kept the tag, threw the fish back, and called the # on the tag once i got home. I was told the fish was tagged on 5-11-02. I caught the fish on 6-15-02....not even a month later, and only a couple hundred yards from where it was tagged! The ALS sent me a brocure explaning how "I can help with the tagging program." They charge you $6 for a 'tag kit' with 10 tags, a needle, and cards to be sent back....the only catch is that for you to be able to buy the tags, you must be a member, which will set you back $30. I would've signed up for the price of the tags, but for them to have the nerve to try and charge me a $30 fee to have the privilege to help them and their study was too much for me.