By Stuart Dunlop (Tagging Officer) with Drawings by N. Kisnasamy
Continuing on from the previous issue (September/October 2011), one of the major problems faced by the ORI Tagging Project is the low reporting rate for the recapture of tagged fish. An in depth study of 1200 shore and boat anglers from KwaZulu-Natal in 2009 revealed that only 13% of the anglers interviewed reported that they had caught a tagged fish during their lifetimes.
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