Tagging Catties

[obone]

Does anyone know if Suntag or any other fishery groups would be interested in tagging catfish? Cause at the moment we are catching some mega numbers of them in the river so I just wondered? Or do they already know all they need to know about catties?

Joel

[mackmauler]

tags cost money, i highly doubt it!

[obone]

Not like satellite tagging pelagics or anything mackmauler. I'm just talking about the little plastic ones the stick in barra etc. I don't think they would be very expensive.

Joel

[Schultzy]

Joel,

Suntag only tag species on which there is a specific research project underway.

Can't think of any likely reasons to undertake a project on a species of very little recreational interest that is about in such huge numbers.

[Schultzy]

P.S. Those little dart tags cost about $1.00 each. Because they are sequentially numbered they can't be just stamped out by the thousands. The dies have to be changed after each tag is printed.

[roobs]

i saw the biggest catfish i have ever seen near the surface of the water at cameron rocks. it was almost a metre long i'm sure. very brown too, like it had been living in fresh water.

[jeff f]

tag them with a wooden bat

[pinkey]

lol! jeff

and roobs was the catfish you saw dead? ive seen some whoppers dead latly

[AlsHilux]

i'm no marketing genius, but why don't we get some AFO generic tags that we can print by the hundred? Seems like a goodway for AFO to out reach to it's target market, and might be a fun way to keep track of our catches (i guess it'd be more prevalent in the river..)

anyway, just something that came to me.

[obone]

So how do these tags work?

Got it out of a big barra a few weeks ago but havent got around to calling them yet. But there are no distinguishing features on it like a barcode or serial number. Is there like a chip in it, like the ones that they put in your dog?

Joel

[obone]

[img size=499]http://www.australianfishing.com.au/media/kunena/attachments/legacy/images/IMG_1739_AFO_AFO.jpg

Joel

[ellicat]

If you're into tagging then you can buy a starter kit from Suntag. There's some more info in the attachment.

Also Joel, I assume you kept the barra for a feed. If not then I think you should leave the tag in. Weather or not you keep the fish, just take the details off the tag and record the size species location etc and report to Suntag. [file name=rad1568E.pdf size=259379]http://www.australianfishing.com.au/media/kunena/attachments/legacy/files/rad1568E.pdf[/file]

rad1568E.pdf

[kiara_poltegerist]

haha, tagging cats would be fun. Only drawback is that I'd prolly use a two dozen or so every trip lol. Another fear would be you might catch a dozen or more every day, but never catch the same one again. I bet there're millions of catfish in the river lol.

[obone]

ellicat wrote:

just take the details off the tag

Thats what I was like asking, in that there was no distinguishing feature on the tag to record. Like it says \"suntag phone 1800blah\" but that's it, no like individual number.

Joel

[ellicat]

Yeah Joel, Sorry - I noticed what you said (in full) after I posted but couldn't be bothered editing. Maybe ring 'em anyway and report to 'em that their tags suck

[obone]

obone wrote:

[img size=499]http://www.australianfishing.com.au/media/kunena/attachments/legacy/images/IMG_1739_AFO_AFO.jpg

Joel

Just called Suntag about it and they said that the number part on the end must have been pulled/broken off

Joel

[Cowfish13]

Ring up again and ask if you can get a certificate anyway.