Nc slaughter

[jffoley]

MD DNR does the tagging. I don't see anywhere where they have recreational anglers participate.

http://dnr.maryland.gov/fisheries/re...l/tag/tags.asp

Virginia does have anglers participate but is limited to 160 anglers. However, striped bass is not one of their targets! How about that?!??

http://www.vims.edu/research/units/c...fish/index.php

Bill, what say you?

[surfdog]

If you want to really be set off, check out the video of the fish dump: http://www.tidalfish.com/forums/show...t-bycatch-quot.

thats the one i saw on P&S sans the music. its a shame

[ictalurus]

Actually, I was thinking something waaay less formal. I was just going to use a small fin clip on the edge of the tail. Maybe use a different location every month. In one of my fisheries classes, we used a hole punch to mark the edge of the tails of largemouth bass in the duck pond at VA Tech. The round edge is easier to distinguish from normal fin splits, but it's not disfiguring if it's along the edge. It grows back in a few months, so it's not a long-term tracking method, and it wouldn't be useful for places that stripers move through quickly. I was thinking that fish would be less mobile around places like Piney Point and the Bay Bridge.

There are enough actual tags in the Bay to make things confusing, so I'm not sure DNR would want to add another set.

[DOGFISH]

I have seen where they clip trout fins. The hole punch sounds good too. I'll have my own study of the South River fish.

John, the first web address for tagging is still good. I think I am going to do that one. That might be fun. It must be some different type of study. Of course I hope it is for recreational anglers. Sometimes you never know.

[DOGFISH]

There is a really good discussion on gamefish status for stripers on tidal fish: http://www.tidalfish.com/forums/show...-Bass-Gamefish.

It sounds much like our discussions.

[DOGFISH]

Highgrading

These should be the posters for commercial conservation:







This is more than what some or many recreational fisherman catch in a whole year.

[surfdog]

yeah that press release from NC IS TOTAL CRAP

Highgrading, call a pig a pig thats dumping a load!