Sharkatag2010 is the next in the SSACN / SSTP shark tagging events, it will run from the 18th to the 20th of June.
This page will continue to be updated from time to time as various issues are finalised and more information becomes available but if you’d like to pre-register you may do so using the simple form at the bottom of this page.
Please Note :: Final registration will be early in the new year and at that point we shall be looking for a participation fee of £10 to help …

Welcome to the Tagathon2009 Home Page.
Tagathon2009 is NOT a fishing competition – the tagging event is part of our ongoing campaign to allow the stocks of spurdog and common skate in Lochs Sunart and Etive and surrounding waters to regenerate by protecting them from excessive and unsustainable commercial exploitation.
The event will be run from two venues namely Loch Sunart and Loch Etive.
From a logistics point of view, we need to know which venue you are fishing and which pick up points and times you will be using,  to collect the …

The venue for Sharkatag 2009 was the western end of The Solway in South West Scotland and the event ran from the 12th to the 14th of June.
Key Points

175 Anglers pre-registered for the event
92% via the web page
29 additional angler walk ups
4 shore anglers, 24 kayaks and 50 boats took part
204 anglers – fished 476 rod days in total
90% of the anglers came from outwith Dumfries and Galloway; 36% from outwith Scotland
530 shark were caught and 222 were tagged.
None were killed.
Sharkatag …

Andy Ford joins the anglers involved in Sharkatag, an important Scottish Sea Anglers Conservation Network event that highlights the need for shark, ray and skate conservation, in a new programme exclusive to angling TV channel www.OnlineFishing.tv .
Andy is joined by Willy Kennedy and Stuart Cresswell, who show him the ropes in his efforts to catch personal best tope to 40lb, bull huss, rays and smoothhounds.
The boys are uptiding and downtiding in running tides for some absolutely superb fish on marks up to 50 metres deep aboard the boat ‘Reel Deal’, …

From this BBC News item.
A Sharkatag event is currently under way in the waters off the Dumfries and Galloway Coast. Organised by the Scottish Sea Angling Conservation Network, it hopes to provide valuable data on shark numbers and behaviour.
BBC News Scotland correspondent Lorna Gordon joins a group of anglers in pursuit of an unusual catch.

I have come to join some anglers for the day who are in pursuit of a rather unusual catch. Paul Maris and Dave Hawkeswood travel all over the world in search of big fish.
They …