Working Group on Salmon Tagging

• Main Authors: Rev Date, Salmon Tagging, North Pacific, Anadromous Fish Commission
• Other Authors: The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: 2011
• Subjects: Bering Sea; Sockeye; Kamchatka; Pink salmon; Sakhalin; Alaska
• Online Access: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.395.4956; http://www.npafc.org/new/publications/Documents/PDF 2011/1358(WGST2011).pdf

High seas tags were recovered from 53 chum salmon in Japan, two chum salmon in Sakhalin, and two sockeye salmon in Bristol Bay, Alaska in 2010. The report also included a tagged pink salmon recaptured in eastern Kamchatka in 2009. In July 2011, tagging operations were conducted by the Japanese resea...