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Marine Sport Fish Tagging Programme
About the Marine Sport Fish Tagging Programme
About the Marine Sport Fish Tagging Programme
The Marine Sportfish Tagging Programme was established by the Inland Fisheries Trust (now IFI) in 1970 to record the distribution and movement of elasmobranchs in Irish waters. It is one of the longest running tagging programmes of its kind in the world. Many increasingly rare marine sportsfish species have been tagged including Common skate and Angel shark, as well as those more abundant species such as Thornback and Spotted ray. All tagged fish recapture data is currently being verified prior to publication here.
Table of Elasmobranch species tagged by the Marine Sportsfish Tagging Programme
| Common Name |
Alternative name |
Species |
Time Span |
No. Tagged |
No. Recaptured |
|
Blue shark |
|
Prionace glauca |
1970-2013 |
19309 |
895 |
|
Thornback ray |
Raja clavata |
1971-2008 |
9082 |
324 |
|
|
Tope |
|
Galeorhinus galeus |
1970-2012 |
6406 |
603 |
|
Common skate |
|
Dipturus batis |
1971-2008 |
1159 |
189 |
|
Angel shark |
|
Squatina squatina |
1970-2006 |
1101 |
190 |
|
Undulate ray |
Raja undulata |
1972-2008 |
1077 |
55 |
|
|
Blonde ray |
Raja brachyura |
1971-2009 |
734 |
122 |
|
|
Spotted ray |
Homelyn ray |
Raja montagui |
1971-2006 |
329 |
16 |
|
Small-eyed ray |
Painted ray |
Raja microcellata |
1974-2013 |
249 |
14 |
|
Porbeagle |
|
Lamna nasus |
1970-2008 |
133 |
9 |
|
Bull huss |
Greater-spotted dogfish |
Scyliorhinus stellaris |
1971-2008 |
94 |
8 |
|
Starry smooth hound |
Smooth hound |
Mustelus asterias |
1984-2006 |
59 |
5 |
|
Common stingray |
Stingray |
Dasyatis pastinaca |
1982-2008 |
49 |
0 |
|
White ray |
|
Rostroraja alba |
1972-1981 |
21 |
0 |
|
Cuckoo ray |
|
Leucoraja naevus |
1983-2008 |
16 |
1 |
