April 2016 Newsletter: Variations in the Annual Abundance of Sargassum In the last newsletter we looked at the importance of Sargassum in catching dolphinfish, using the tagging records reported by recreational anglers. Anglers reported catching more than 66 percent of all fish tagged from 2006 through 2015 in association with Sargassum,
Cooperative Science Services, LLC Dolphin Research Program March 2016 Newsletter Sargassum Relation to Dolphinfish Blue water fishermen view a line or mat of Sargassum as an oasis for fish in the vast sameness of the open ocean. Seasoned offshore fishermen know that dolphin love Sargassum, the floating brown macroalgae that occur in warm
2015 Recap Fishermen tagged a total of 1,656 dolphin in 2015, making it the fifth-best year for the number of dolphin tagged in this study. A total of 101 privately owned vessels and more than 200 anglers participated in accomplishing this feat. Fish were tagged from Texas to Florida in the Gulf of
