Groundfish Tagging Program - Simple tags

REWARD for Atka Mackerel tags
Spaghetti tag

REWARDS for Number of
Spaghetti tags returned:
1 - 2 Hat
3 - 4 Towel
5 + Fleece Vest

Electronic data tag
REWARD for return of
undamaged Electronic data tag:

$200
back

front

(on opposite side of fish)

NMFS offers rewards for the return of each tag from an Atka mackerel. These are specially
marked fish for a migration and abundance study. Please include: Finders name, address,
tag number, fish fork length, sex, vessel name, date, and capture location.
Finders should turn in the tags and information to the observer on board or send
Susanne McDermott F/AKC2
Dan Nichol F/AKC1
Spaghetti tags to: National Marine Fisheries Service
Electronic tags to: National Marine Fisheries Service

OMB No. 0648-0276

Alaska Fisheries Science Center
7600 Sandpoint Way N.E.
Seattle, WA 98115
Phone: (206) 526-4417

Alaska Fisheries Science Center
7600 Sand Point Way N.E.
Seattle, WA 98115
Phone: (206) 526-4538

RETURN PACIFIC COD TAGS
Orange “Spaghetti” tag

Electronic data tag
back

front

(on opposite side of fish)

measure length
RETURN a “Spaghetti” tag with
length, sex and capture information.
GET a custom embroidered
cap as a reward, and a record
of where your fish was tagged.
RETURN an undamaged Electronic data
tag with length, sex, and capture information.
(Avoid freezing and avoid magnetic fields)

GET a

OMB No. 0648-0276

$200 REWARD.

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Retain fish & tag and turn in to NMFS Observer or
local NMFS Observer office.
If NMFS personnel are not available, do the following:
tag, record capture location, and date.
* Collect
measure fish as shown above.
* Carefully
sex of fish.
* Determine
* Send Electronic tags to: Spaghetti tags to:
Dan Nichol F/AKC1
National Marine Fisheries Service
Alaska Fisheries Science Center
7600 Sand Point Way N.E.
Seattle, WA 98115-0070
(206) 526-4538

Sandi Neidetcher F/AKC2
National Marine Fisheries Service
Alaska Fisheries Science Center
7600 Sand Point Way N.E.
Seattle, WA 98115-0070
(206) 526-4521

NATIONAL MARINE FISHERIES SERVICE PACIFIC COD TAGGING PROJECT

BACK OF FLYERS
The voluntary groundfish tag recovery program is part of the fishery resource assessment that the
National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) conducts under the Magnuson-Stevens Act authority
as codified in 16 U.S.C. 1854 (e) and 1801 (a)(8). Tag returns provide essential biological and
movement information used in groundfish stock assessment. Public reporting burden for this
collection is estimated to average 5 minutes per response (20 minutes for electronic tags),
including the time for reviewing instructions, gathering and maintaining the data needed, and
completing and reviewing the collection of information. Send comments regarding this burden
estimate or any other aspect of this collection of information, including suggestions for reducing
this burden, to the address above. Information you provide is treated as confidential per Section
402(b) of the Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Act and NOAA
Administrative Order 216-100, “Confidentiality of Statistics”. Notwithstanding any other
provision of the law, no person is required to respond to, nor shall any person be subject to a
penalty for failure to comply with, a collection of information subject to the requirements of the
Paperwork Reduction Act, unless that collection of information displays a currently valid OMB
Control Number.