Tag & Release, with the sportfishing boat the "PROWLER" and Capt. Al Anderson

Sport fishing aboard the... With Capt. Al Anderson

RECENT TAGGING ACTIVITIES aboard the PROWLER
Year	#'s T/R	Career
2006	5,668	46,097
2007	4,081	50,166
2008	2,518	52,684
2009	2,157	54,841

AGENCY	2010 SEASON	CAREER
ALS	1,006 striped bass	41,845
	526 bluefish	5,749
	5 cod/haddy	1,981
	19 fluke	66
	9 blk. sea bass	50
	3 tautog	20
NMFS	1 thresher, 1 blue	1,376
NMFS	4 bluefin tuna	4,913
TOTALS:	1,574	56,415
Fishing community reported the recap of approx. 89 PROWLER tagged fish in ’10 from ME, MA, RI, CT, DE, & VA waters; 65 stripers, 14 blues, 7 codfish, 2 sea bass, & 1 fluke. Clients recap’d. 2 tagged stripers; 1 HRF, 1 USFWS fish.

Pt. Jude Pond, 55,000th TR striped bass, 51910

SOME TAGGING MILESTONES:

Ed Green (NJ), fishing with his American Littoral Society (ALS) morning group on Sat. May 22nd in Point Judith’s Pond's Narrows, caught a 19"/3 lb. striped bass that was quickly tagged and released (T/R). This was the 55,000th career game fish T/R by Capt. Al Anderson, RI’s IGFA Rep. and was one of 24 14"-22" stripers marked for science that morning. Green was one of 12 member group aboard the PROWLER both days of a May ALS-member weekend in which 87 stripers were T/R..

Anderson, an ALS member for 43 years, has nearly 42,000 stripers T/R for that conservation-oriented group. A resident of Narragansett, he’s been an IGFA Rep. for 21 years, and has been internationally recognized numerous times for his Atlantic bluefin tuna tagging.

Hard to believe it was 43 years ago (1968) I tagged and released my first school bluefin tuna for Frank Mather, III, who was then studying these fish at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute. That same year I marked my first striped bass for the American Littoral Society, thanks to the urging of Bob Pond (deceased), founder of Stripers Unlimited.

On August 11, 2010 notice was rec’d. of the recapture of my 2,000th ALS gamefish, a striped bass from Kittery ME, by Josh Rockwell. This fish was initially caught/T/R on 4/10/08 by Steph Cramer in the Thames River, CT.

Rec’d. notice to a nomination in SPORT FISHING magazine re: their upcoming “Making A Difference” Award, recognizing various individuals for their contributions to sport fishing. Stay tuned for further up-dates....

PROWLER anglers only T/R 1400+ game fish in 2010, and in the process recaptured 2 fish bearing tags. Unseasonable cold fall and early winter weather/ice curtailed much of our local o-w striper fishing.