Marligator wrote: Nice fish Josh, what do you think it would have weighed. Did you get it on a lure or live bait, looked like it was pretty lively at the boat with the broken tail. The point I was going to make is that maybe the reason for Tutukaka having a lower tagging % is because most of the fish are brought in to be weighed because of the 70kg minimum weight and will not cop any grief at weighin, whereas up in the BOI where the minimum weight is 90kg small fish are just cut up on the boat or just taken straight home, because they know they may get grief from the club and weighmasters for bringing in fish under 90 kg. |
I agree we have an
obligation to tag over 50% of marlin.
We need ways of getting that message
out to fishers who weren't around when the Billfish Moratorium was bought in to
try and save the recreational marlin fishery.
A minimum size limit has worked well
for club members. Some of the non members will do what they want regardless.
Here is a plot from club records last year. It is for all striped marlin from Bay of Islands Swordfish Club and Whangarei Deep Sea Anglers Club. Looks to me that from 100 kg and larger numbers are roughly similar. The number of small fish recored is quite different. There could be a number of reasons for this but probably not just the distrubution of smaller fish alone.
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