Sharkatag 2010 is now well under way and an improvement in the weather has resulted in much improved catches with reasonable numbers of tope, bull huss, spurdog, smoothhound and rays being caught by the anglers around the area and everyone is having a great time.

 
Willie with a smoothhound and Paul with a thornback ray taken on day 2
 
Media coverage was excellent for the second day running – BBC Breakfast TV once again highlighted Sharkatag and one of sea angling’s leading journalists, Phil Williams of Fishing Films …

A mixed day to kick off Sharkatag – some really good fish taken offshore but catches inshore were more variable – some boats managing to take 4 or 5 taggable fish, others struggling to catch any – however, there was a reasonable spread of smoothhound, huss, rays and even some spurdog. There were also good numbers of lesser spotted dogfish to make sure most everyone caught something.
The first fish tagged and entered onto the SSTP database was a 10lb male tope taken by Raymond Scaife fishing from ‘Lady Jasmine’ using …

The updated SSTP recording card is now available for download in pdf form.
You may either print it to normal paper and send it in an envelope to the address on the card, or, you may print it to card and then just use it as a ‘postcard’.
NB:: you may also directly enter your data to the SSTP database.
For those taking part in Sharkatag 2010 – to help us provide up to date information during Sharkatag, please hand in your cards at the end of each day to the SSACN …

The SSTP recently went to Coll to visit Arinagour Primary School to help them scour the beach at Feall Bay for eggcases.
The day was a huge success with (slightly windy) beautiful sunny weather allowing the class to spend all afternoon on the beach after a morning learning fascinating shark facts.
Many Catshark eggcases were found and the pupils were so inspired by the day that a few returned the following weekend to hold their own eggcase hunt, finding a very impressive 48 catshark eggcases!
Aileen Cook, the head teacher at Arinagour, …

Oban is to host a major new 10 day event, celebrating ‘Argyll’s  dazzling marine environment’ and inviting everyone to come and join the adventure.
The Festival of the Sea is a community festival and embraces anything and everything to do with the sea and our expressions of our relationship with it – from marine science, to art, drama, wildlife, history, cuisine, dance, language; it will run from 21st – 31st May.
As part of the festival, there will be a free event at the Corran Halls, Oban on the 25th May from …

Sharkatag 2010 is over.
It ran from the 18th to the 20th of June and as usual the main target was tope with rays, huss and hounds also expected to feature.
Results :: These will be posted as soon as all returns are in and have been validated.
Meanwhile photos taken at the event may be found at http://www.tagsharks.com/tagging-programmes/sharkatag-2010-photo-call.
As usual for Sharkatag, the main target will be tope and the location will be around the Mull of Galloway.
Please remember – Sharkatag is not a competition – its main aims are to tag as many fish as …

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 …

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’, …

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 …

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 was featured on BBC Breakfast TV, BBC …