Re: Eat My Shorts!
The number of tag returns vs. the number of fish tagged is staggeringly few. I have had some of my tagged fish recaptured. Some were caught right away, some were caught a year or more later. Most of the tag returns from fluke that I released during past summers have been recaptured in the same vicinity as where they were tagged. Some were recaptured only a short time after they were released and had only moved less than a mile from where they had been tagged in the first place. A few others had been able to avoid recapture for a year or so, but when they were caught, they had returned to the same area where I tagged them. My theory is that the ocean fluke take up residence in an area and stay relatively close to there until the body of fluke start their fall migration. Once that starts, they can cover more than a mile per day on their way offshore. Again, it's only a theory.
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