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04/30/2008: "Call In Tagged Lincod"

“Attention anglers! We need your help with a lingcod tagging study in the San Juan Channel.” Anne Beaudreau is a grad student at the University of Washington Friday Harbor Labs, and has been researching lingcod in the San Juans for almost 5 years.

Over the summer she tagged more than 300 fish to learn more about their population status and movement patterns. “I’ll be fishing in May to recapture tagged lingcod but it would be great to have the help of local anglers who might catch a tagged ling” she said.

This work is being conducted by researchers at the University of Washington to determine seasonal movement patterns of lingcod. Look for lingcod marked with gray plastic spaghetti tags.


If you catch a tagged lingcod please record as much of the following information as possible:

1) Tag number;
2) Date and time collected;
3) Location – as specific as possible (Latitude-Longitude position, or Descriptive location, such as “east side Turn Island”);
4) Fish length and/or weight.

Please report this information to Anne Beaudreau at the UW School of Aquatic and Fishery Sciences by phone (206) 221-5458 or e-mail annebeau@u.washington.edu Contact Anne with any questions or comments about the project.

You may report tag recaptures anonymously. All information reported will be used only to achieve the scientific objectives of the project.