Salmon carcass tagging?

effluent

Has anyone got any info on this? Why is there different coloured tags used for salmon in certain rivers? Why is it brought in, Just to stop poaching and improve return records. Is there a difference in the tags used by nets men and anglers?

stylie

All anglers are entitled to ten blue tags overall in a year, 3 till Mayish and then the 7 after that, though there is a restriction around Sept if I remember correctly.

Now certain rivers are pure C&R or they are C&R till say August and then they are 1 brown tag, you still need the blue and brown in the fish.
Other rivers are allocated brown tags using a random number generator though they say its based on catches/results but its not

Netsmen get allocated different tags.

For more information try here

http://www.fishinginireland.info/salmon/salmontagging.htm

effluent

stylie wrote: »

All anglers are entitled to ten blue tags overall in a year, 3 till Mayish and then the 7 after that, though there is a restriction around Sept if I remember correctly.

Now certain rivers are pure C&R or they are C&R till say August and then they are 1 brown tag, you still need the blue and brown in the fish.
Other rivers are allocated brown tags using a random number generator though they say its based on catches/results but its not

Netsmen get allocated different tags.

For more information try here

http://www.fishinginireland.info/salmon/salmontagging.htm

I'm a bit confused about the brown tag though. Is it that after a river has been open after catch and release that the angler has to use brown tags for the fish that are caught, then the folowing season revert to ordinary blue tags?

stylie

Brown tags are a way of limiting the amount of fish that are caught and killed on a river. So there might be 50 for one month, 10 the next etc.
The brown tags might be in place for a number of season or just the one, depends on the catch amount.

Zzippy

Brown tags are used where a river has a low quota, it allows fisheries authorities to control the catch more effectively. Blue tags must also be used. On rivers with a large quota, where fisheries authorities consider there is little risk of the quota being exceeded, blue tags only are required.
Brown/green tags for commercial netsmen are used so that only legally-caught salmon can be sold - any salmon that is sold without a tag is illegal. Again, this allows fisheries authorities to identify illegally-caught salmon more easily and helps with enforcement.