Fishery Leaflet Number B5 '1977 Recaptures of Irish Tagged
Since tagging of Slllolts began in Ireland there have been sixteen distant water recaptures, of adult salmon tagged as Slllolts or parr in Irish waters. Fifteen of these were recaptured from the Greenland fishery and one salmon was recovered from the Faroe Islands. The recaptw:es resulted from a num...
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| Summary: | Since tagging of Slllolts began in Ireland there have been sixteen distant water recaptures, of adult salmon tagged as Slllolts or parr in Irish waters. Fifteen of these were recaptured from the Greenland fishery and one salmon was recovered from the Faroe Islands. The recaptw:es resulted from a number of salmon smolt and salmon parr tagging programmes. Some of these:prO'grammes were designed specifically to obtain inforDBtion on the distant m:l.grations of Irish salmoh but other progralDlles were to study m:l.grations and mortality in the home waters. Infol.'llllltion on recaptures has been published elsewhere (Piggins 1970. went 1973). This leaflet brings together all the available information on recapturesof tagged Irish salmon in distant waters up to December 1975 and gives background information on the tagging progralDlles. Table 1 lists the recapturEl3and gives infomation of the type of tag used, the date of the tagging and year,of migration. Each recapture has a letter referring it to a tagging project. The details of each tagging project are outlined below. Figure 1 shows the exact location of the recoveries at Greenland where this infol.'llllltion was available. Figure 2 shows the locations of the tagging sites and areas where tagged smolts were released. Project A This programme was carried out by Department personnel to obtain infol.'llllltion on the distant water migrations of Irish salmon. Location and date. The fish were tagged at the Electricity Supply Boards ' salmon rearing station at Parteen. Co Limerick during December 1966 and Februa:t:y 1967., Tags. Blue Neal tags were used on 5,000 fish. InfOJ:lJB tiOll! on the fish. The fish ranged from 12 to 14 cm in forlc length ldlen they were tagged as one--year old parr. They are presumed to have migrated from the River Shannon, as amolts in May 1967. Recoveries from Greenland. One fish was recovered from Greenland (Table 1).-2-Recoveries from home watera. One fish was recovered in home waters from the River |
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