Hallprint Fish Tagging in Hindmarsh Valley, South Australia, Australia | Local business
Hallprint Fish Tagging
Locality: Hindmarsh Valley, South Australia, Australia
Phone: +61 8 8552 3149
Address: 27 Commerce Crescent 5211 Hindmarsh Valley, SA, Australia
Website: http://www.hallprint.com
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19.01.2022 Great terrestrial example using our versatile and incredibly popular and reliable glue-on shellfish tags....
14.01.2022 A great story and new reported world record time at liberty for a Hallprint tagged fish! Congratulations to all involved in this long running and hugely successful South African tagging program including the original tagger Dr Geremy Cliff, Dr Bruce Mann, Stuart Dunlop and Gareth Jordaan.
13.01.2022 More long term angler citizen science at work using the world’s longest lasting fish tags, this time through the long running Oceanographic Research Institute Tagging Program in South Africa...
04.01.2022 Another proud moment for our company. It is also the longest time at liberty reported for a Hallprint tagged fish globally - and quite possibly for any externally tagged fish anywhere. Without tags remaining intact and readable for more than a quarter of a century this would not have been possible and is testimony to the development work that my father Michael did in the 1980s with a little encouragement from his biologist son!
01.01.2022 On the 21st December 2019 we had our 288th smoothhound shark tag recapture event for the Tagging Project! This recapture is quite amazing as the nephew of the a...ngler who tagged the shark, recaptured it. This smoothhound was originally tagged by Maarten Molenaar on the 14th December 2014 in the Keurbooms/Bitou River area, north of Plettenberg Bay, measuring 1710 mm TL. It was recaptured 1 833 days (5 years) later by Phillip Opperman in the same location. Unfortunately, no measurement was taken during the recapture event, so growth of the shark is unknown, but this species is known to have a very slow growth rate. It is unlikely that this shark remained resident in the same place the whole time but was more likely back visiting the area when it was recaptured. Adults of this species have been shown to undertake large-scale migratory movements, often using sheltered bays in the Western Cape for pupping. Smoothhound sharks have faced increasingly high fishing pressure from commercial fisheries in South Africa and a recent stock assessment indicated that the stock is overfished. The species has also been assessed as Vulnerable on the IUCN Red List. Careful management is thus required to ensure that smoothhound sharks can recover to more sustainable levels. We would like to thank our taggers and the members of the public for their ongoing support and for reporting these incredible recaptures to us! Remember, limit your catch, don’t catch your limit! See more
