Cooperative Tagging Center
Since 1954 the Cooperative Tagging Center has provided free conventional tags to anglers to deploy on Billfish and Tuna species. The data from this program has been used in the international stock assessments of these Highly Migratory Species.
Project URL: https://www.fisheries.noaa.gov/southeast/atlantic-highly-migratory-species/cooperative-tagging-program
Geographic Scope: Atlantic Ocean, Gulf of Mexico, and adjacent waters
Project Status: Active - recruiting volunteers
Participation Tasks: Classification or tagging, Observation, Specimen/sample collection,
Start Date: 01/01/1954
Project Contact: tagging@noaa.gov
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Fields of Science: Animals, Biology, Ecology and environment, Nature and outdoors, Ocean/water and marine
Intended Outcomes: To provide a long-term dataset of HMS species movement and distributions for use in stock assessments.