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Contents
- Results from the tagging of Blue Shark in Irish Waters
- Monkfish Migrations
- The wanderings of Irish tope
- Coarse Fish Tagging Programme 2002
- Tagged Roach x Bream Hybrid Recaptured After Two years at Liberty
Marine Sport Fish Tagging Programme
The Central Fisheries Board's Marine Sportfish Tagging Programme was initiated in 1970 by the Inland Fisheries Trust, who had responsibility for developing and promoting recreational sea angling. By the late 1960s, results from sea angling competitions were showing a decline in the capture of some of the most important species such as Blue Shark, Tope, Monkfish, Skates and Rays. At that time, virtually all fish caught by anglers were killed and taken ashore for weighing and photographic opportunities.
As little was known at the time about the biology and migration patterns of these species, the Inland Fisheries Trust decided to introduce a tagging programme with the explicit purpose of introducing conservation measures and to learn more about the migratory patterns of sea angling species. To encourage charter boat skippers to participate in tagging fish the Marine Sportfish Tagging Programme Conservation Award was created. This is award is presented each year to the skipper who tags the most fish. In 2004 the award was presented to Europe's only lady skipper, Mary Gavin Hughes,Shamrock 1 out of Newport, for the third year in a row.
Tagged Fish
Tags are attached to a variety of Marine Fish around the Irish Coastline. If you catch a tagged fish please send details of the location (as accurate as possible) of recapture, date, time and method.
As well as this if you intend to release the fish please record the details on the tag number. If possible also weight (estimate if no scales available) and length (from tip of snout to end of tale) of the fish as well as method of recapture.
If you have killed the fish, please remove and return the tag to the address below with details of weight, length and method of recapture.
Reward
All fishermen returning a tag and recapture details will receive an 'Irish Marine Sportfish Tagging T shirt.' They will be provide them with as much information as we have on the fish that they caught. This will include time / place of original tagging, days at liberty, distance covered et cetera.
Contact
Mark.H.V.Corps & Shane O' Reilly (Angling Advisors)can be contacted at:
Central Fisheries Board
Swords Business Campus
Swords. co. Dublin
T: +353 (0)1 884 2672
Mb: +353 (0)87 672 7194
Freshwater fish Tagging
Freshwater fish tagging programmes are regularly run by the CFB to examine the life history of species such as trout, tench, pike, bream and other coarse fish..
It is only by continuing such tagging programmes that we will fill in the large gaps in our knowledge regarding the biology and ecology of our freswater fish species. And it is only with the help of anglers that the CFB's scientists will gather sufficient data to enable them to make informed decisions regarding the future management of fish stocks in our waterways. To assist in this ongoing process it is imperative that any angler who catches a tagged fish accurately records the tag number (without removing the tag) and reports this information, with the exact location of capture, to
Dr Joe Caffrey ,
Central Fisheries Board, Mobhi Road, Glasnevin, Dublin 9.
Telephone: (01) 8842600.
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