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
How to Increase Your Tag Recovery Rate There are some ardent dolphin taggers out there who have tagged more than 100 fish and have not had one of their fish reported recovered. Then there are those taggers who have had a recovery after tagging no more than five fish. Chance does
Banner Year for Tagging What started out as a good year for tagging dolphin has turned into an exceptional year. The number of dolphin reported tagged through August 31, 2014, is 1,771fish. This exceeds the number tagged in 2010, 1,754, which was the second-highest number of fish tagged in the
