| Program |
Participant/ Material/location |
Type of Tag
& Number |
Contact |
California Department of Fish & Game
Pelagic Shark Tagging |
-Volunteer
-Commercial fishermen
10,000 sharks tagged since 1983. 150 returns |
Floy stainlesssteel dart tag (FH-69), yellow in color
Cal. Dept. Fish & Game, Long Beach CA, USA, Reward
Number: SH##### |
Dr. John Ugoretz
California Dept. of Fish & Game Pelagic Shark Tagging Program
330 Golden Shore, Suite 50
Long Beach, CA 90802, USA
(562) 590-4801 |
2000+ UK Shark
Tagging Programme |
To be carried out in southern UK in 1999 |
|
Sue& Jeri Drake
Funded by WWF |
Cooperative Shark Tagging
APEX PREDATORS PROGRAM
National Marine Fisheries Service |
- Over 6000 volunteer taggers, sport and commercial
fishers. Using rod and reel and longline North Atlantic, Caribbean, Gulf
of Mexico only |
Dart tags with capsule, unique number and reward
system. Rototags in dorsal fins, blue, red, yellow, white. Yellow plastic dart (Hallprint)
on small sharks Number: varies |
Cooperative Shark Tagging
APEX PREDATORS PROGRAM
National Marine Fisheries Service
NARRAGANSETT LABORATORY
28 Tarzwell Drive
Narragansett, RI 02882 USA |
COASTSPAN
participate to the Cooperative shark Tagging program |
- 750 foot by 10 foot gill net, 4 inch strech mesh
anchored and soaked for 3 hours, sharks removed every 15 to 30 minutes. Gillnetting
in estuarine areas for shark pups of various species in SC and east US coast. |
Roto-tags
Number: B#### |
Wes Pratt
Narragansettfunded by the NMFS
|
The project itself is actually a red
drum (Sciaenops ocellatus), but sharks are tagged for the National Marine
Fisheries Service/ COASTSPAN.
Picture available
|
- Monofilament longline gear fished on the bottom (sets
are 6000 feet long, with a hook every 50 feet for 120 hooks per set total, the gear soaked
for 1 hour then retrieved Charleston, SC, from 4 to 12 or so miles
offshore (30 to 60 feet) |
Depending on shark size Hallprint (plastic dart) tags.
Number: FMP####. |
SC Dept of Nat Resources |
Casey tags used on larger sharks, which carry a National Marine
Fisheries
Number: ###### |
The Apex Predator
Investigtion Project
Narragansett, RI, I |
Roto-tags
Number: B#### |
The Apex Predator
Investigtion Project
Narragansett, RI, I |
