The IUCN/SSC Shark Specialist Group
Shark News 7: June 1996
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Registers of tagging programmes
Sarah Fowler, Shark Specialist Group
While collating just the small amount of information on tagging
programmes which appears in this issue of Shark News, it became
apparent that there are a very large number and varied range of tagging
programmes in operation, with several new initiatives starting up in
different countries this year alone.
The question immediately arose: how are these coordinated so
that the data which is obtained from tag returns is not lost? Is there a
central register of tag and release programmes, which ensures that tag
returns eventually make their way back to the appropriate organisation
and are matched with the original release data? No doubt these are
very obvious questions to all those who have been actively involved
in tagging programmes for some time, but this information appears not
to be generally available to individuals who are setting up new tagging
initiatives for the first time.
My enquiries have resulted in information being provided on just
two such registers.
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