About this campaign
What is Tag A Tag a Tiny??
Tag a Tiny? is a cooperative tagging program for juvenile bluefin tuna. It was started in 2006 by the Large Pelagics Research Center led by Dr. Molly Lutcavage, who recognized the need to identify migration paths and habitats of juvenile Atlantic bluefin tuna in the NW Atlantic.
Year-long movements of juvenile tuna were unknown, and large data gaps for small fish were (and still are) an impediment to understanding the stock?s trajectory and future success in management.
The initial objective of Tag a Tiny? was to determine the feasibility of developing a network of cooperative fishermen taggers in a region where commercial fishing for juveniles no longer occurred, and where scientific tagging via purse seine or bait boat was highly improbable. The model worked, and to this day, the program enlists recreational anglers and charter boat captains to catch, measure, tag, and release juvenile bluefin with conventional, double-barbed nylon ?spaghetti? ID tags purchased from The Billfish Foundation.
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Together we can produce world class science while asking big questions about tunas and billfish, such as age of maturity and the potential for additional spawning grounds (like the one we found in the Slope Sea).
But we can?t do it alone. We need YOU, our fishermen partners.
When you purchase LPRC merch, you can rest assure that 100% of proceeds will support Tag a Tiny?, a cooperative tagging program of the Large Pelagics Research Center and a fiscally sponsored project of Social and Environmental Entrepreneurs (SEE), a registered 501(c)3 public charity.
Get your tagging kits here: www.tunalab.org/volunteer.php
Make a tax exempt donation here: www.tunalab.org/getinvolved.htm
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