Re: The Fluke are Coming!
[QUOTE=Billfish715;445787]They have about 100 miles to go. I just received another tag return from the American Littoral Society's tagging director, Jeff Dement. A fluke that I tagged and released at the end of August in Manasquan Inlet was recaptured four weeks ago by a commercial fishing boat in 55 fathoms near Hudson Canyon. The fluke was 15" when I tagged it. It was 15.3" and 1 lb 4 oz. when the tag was returned. The information was forwarded by the North Carolina Dept. of Natural Resources from a catch that was unloaded in Beacheck out far offshore that so far have gone undetected and unexplored.
We tag them and let them go and a commercial draggers kills it and sells it. I agree tagging helps us understand there migration but it still pisses me off.
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