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Another tuna travel tale FOLLOWING on from a recent long-term yellowfin tuna recapture, the NSW DPI Game Fish Tagging Program has recently received information about another incredible tuna recapture. An albacore tuna released by Eden Game Fishing Club boat, Sea Mode, has been recaptured offshore of New Caledonia in the Coral Sea. The fish was originally measured at 60 centimetres and estimated to be four kilograms when it was tagged by Ross Cooper whilst fishing offshore of Merimbula, NSW, on 10 June 2017. The fish was recaptured on 5 February 2021 by a New Caledonian commercial vessel that ...

Interstate kingfish recapture! Troy Harris with the original tag and release. KINGFISH tagged under NSW DPI's Game Fish Tagging Program are regularly recaptured twice and sometimes even three or four times. The vast majority of multiple recaptures are often juvenile fish (sub 90cm fish) that haven’t travelled far between recapture locations. But for the first time in the history of the Game Fish Tagging Program, a tagged kingy has been recaptured multiple times in different states! The record-setting recaptured kingfish was originally tagged and released on 18 February 2018 by Troy Harris....