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New Tagging Study--$1000.00 Rewards for Tag Return

A new tagging study was begun recently as part of a collaborative research effort between commercial sablefish fishermen and scientists at the University of California at Santa Cruz.  Pot caught sablefish have been tagged with orange tags in an effort to determine if release mortality is affected by water temperature and depth of capture. 

Please return all sablefish tags with data on date captured, latitude/longitude, approximate depth and fish length to port samplers, NMFS Seattle Lab or directly to Steve Berkeley, UC Santa Cruz, Long Marine Lab ,100 Shaffer Road , Santa Cruz, CA 95066.

Hats will be given as a reward for each orange tag returned.  A drawing for $1000.00 will be held every 500 tags returned.