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numbskull · 06-03-2008, 05:34 PM

I used to tag for the ALS, but stopped after I had a 45lb fish go permanently belly up one August night. In the summer, the time it takes to weigh, measure, record, and tag a fish adds to their mortality rate. I have also heard that the NMFS doesn't have much use for the data that private tagging programs generate, at least for Striped Bass.

06-03-2008, 05:34 PM	#2
numbskull Oblivious // Grunt, Grunt Master iTrader: (0) Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: over the hill Posts: 6,682	I used to tag for the ALS, but stopped after I had a 45lb fish go permanently belly up one August night. In the summer, the time it takes to weigh, measure, record, and tag a fish adds to their mortality rate. I have also heard that the NMFS doesn't have much use for the data that private tagging programs generate, at least for Striped Bass.