GT Care - Cool :)

[Mark Harris]

This whole tagging thing in Indonesia got me thinking and I went back checking photos of fish I have caught locally here.

Nothing resembling a tag except on the very latest fish I caught on Saturday at Batu Abah, Bali. Idiot here did not notice at the time of course.

Callan or anyone else, does this look like a tag to you?  The loose end made me think it could just be a snag?  If someone is running a GT tagging program in Bali, I will find out and suggest it might be a decent idea (!) to tell all the local boatmen and GT anglers.

[Callan Wallace]

From what I understand about starting a tagging program the first thing to do is educate all of the fishing public that tagging is going to be done. That way if someone catches a tagged fish at least you can get some info. I have been told that this is no small feat. Posters, fliers and education are all part of the process. Here in Fiji that would mean going out to the surrounding villages and conducting seminars to try to spread the word and teach about tagging. All of this needs to be done before a single tag is put on a fish.  Mark if that is a tag then someone forgot the most important steps.

[Angus Hulme]

Interesting concept, that revival tank. I have to say, though, that i can't really see the point in it. If an angler wants to revive a GT, why not just put it back over the side and revive it boat side as soon as possible after a couple of photos?

The only scenario I could think of that you wouldn't want to release the fish immediately was if there was a ravenous pack of massive sharks at the back of the boat. And even then, the sharks would probably follow the boat to wherever you wanted to release the fish?

Anyway, that's my take on it. 

[Mark Harris]

That works fine in flat water Angus. It can be very difficult in lumpy water with a raging current though - i.e. the places I usually fish!

[Wiwied Soeparto]

the cable tie is for tagging and got adhek's name on it, we scaled the fish using human scale with a self made board on top of it, so the GT was safely lied on top of the board.

[Trent]

What a great idea. A revival tank would have to be better than a hose down the throat for survival rates