A database for Pacific herring tagged and recovered in British Columbia from 1999 to 2006 using coded wire tag technology
Description
abstract: A Pacific herring tagging study using coded wire tags was conducted from 1999 to 2006
through a partnership between the Department of Fisheries and Oceans Canada and the
Herring Conservation and Research Society. Samples of tagged fish were released during
the 1999 to 2004 spawning seasons and tagged fish were recovered from the 2000 to 2006
roe herring fisheries by searching sub-samples of the roe herring landings. The aim of
the study was to collect information to investigate trends in inter-annual spawning
ground utilization and migration intensity. This paper describes the tag release and
recovery sampling components of the study and the organization of the tagging study
records. Tagging study records are currently stored and maintained in a Microsoft Access
2002 database file by Department of Fisheries and Oceans, Marine Ecosystem and
Aquaculture Division research staff at the Pacific Biological Station. Nanaimo, British
Columbia.
