Tag-A-Giant
is back in Carolina January 2005 – Scientists
from Stanford and Duke University along with the Monterey
Bay Aquarium and National Marine Fisheries Service
have placed over 700 electronic tags in bluefin tuna
in this region. The data from implantable archival
tags has been critical for establishing the basic
biology of Atlantic bluefin and the patterns of movements
to feeding and breeding grounds. To date, tracks of
up to four years have been obtained.
Tag-A-Giant
in Nantucket - Scientist have been tagging in New
England waters each October since the year 1998. Large
mature fish are targeted in this region. To date tags
have show movement patterns linking New England fish to
Carolina, the Bahamas and the Gulf of Mexico. One fish
showed fidelity from Nantucket to the Gulf of Mexico and
back.
Nantucket
Tag-A-Giant
in the Gulf of Mexico - Longline vessels have taken
the lead in cooperating with the marine biologists from
Stanford University on extended trips in the Gulf of Mexico.
Conditions are at their toughest for this scientific expedition.
Tags are showing where bluefin tuna breed.
Gulf
of Mexico
Tag-A-Giant
in Ireland - This is Ireland's first ever satellite
tagging of Giant bluefin tuna up at 55 North latitude
off the western Coast of Ireland- Stanford and BIM scientists
worked together with Irish sport fishers to cooperatively
tag in European waters.
