Offshore Tagged albacore travels 14,582 miles in 380 days

BUGDIVER · Oct-12-2009, 07:57 PM

very cool stuff!

CamHat · Oct-12-2009, 08:06 PM

That one that went to japan is fucking hilarious.

OFN · Oct-12-2009, 08:10 PM

Excellent thanks for taking the time to post this. Well done.

Albacrazy · Oct-12-2009, 08:30 PM

Incredible! It's interesting to see a pattern with the few fish recovered except the one that booked to Japan. I would love to see the info on how their movements related to current and temp.

Bada Bing · Oct-12-2009, 08:39 PM

That's some cool shit right there, depth and temp data should be interesting. Thanks for the post and what did ya do with the $500?

bhsquid · Oct-12-2009, 08:40 PM

That's way cool. Thanks for posting it up.

tunastryker25 · Oct-12-2009, 08:46 PM

This is like an "A+" college research paper... excellent read....

doug dorsey · Oct-12-2009, 08:52 PM

Thanks so much for taking the time to post this, it was very interesting!

Tuna Master · Oct-12-2009, 08:55 PM

great post. Always thought they only did a trans-pacific run. wow.

Vigilant32 · Oct-12-2009, 09:18 PM

Very nice to see some of the collection data coming on line.

And yes, they are tagging other types of tunas for other studies.

A few years back we caught a tagged yellow fin tuna down on the ridge. It also had both styles of tags, however the internal tag was a bit larger.

Unfortunately for our fish, it had just been tagged less than two weeks eariler in the same vicinity. Still worth a $1000 for both tags, and good to get the data back to the guys in the study.

I guess that yellowfin didn't learn much from the study, is still ate something with a hook in it!

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medunn16 · Oct-12-2009, 09:20 PM

I love this stuff!

Fin Finder · Oct-12-2009, 09:27 PM

Bill, thank you for the informative and thought provoking post. I have a friend who is a commercial fisherman that mentioned tagging data and worked with the researchers. He said that in some cases, the albacore were found to hang around off the Calif/Baja coast rather than migrate across the ocean. That one fish you caught seems to indicate that.

Where did you obtain the migration graphs you posted? I browsed around the links you provided and could not find them. I enjoy learning more about the fish in order to become a better fisherman, but also to appreciate what is being done to protect this precious resource for future generations to catch and enjoy. Thanks again for posting this information. Bill