Tagging Technologies

Striped Marlin Mortality Study

Posted on Jun 10, 2009 in Tagging Technologies | 0 comments

A project was initiated in the autumn of 2000 to document the mortality of striped marlin caught on recreational fishing tackle, with a follow-up study conducted in autumn of 2001. Fish were caught using typical recreation fishing methods and 80 pop-up satellite archive tags were deployed with new software and mechanical release mechanism that allowed tags to detach and transmit early if the...