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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 ...

Solid swim for recaptured samsonfish! 8 April 2021 A SAMSONFISH originally tagged south of Sydney has recently been recaptured. Matt Ryan recaptured the fish near South Solitary Island, off Coffs Harbour, on 27 February, 2021. The samson measured in at 95cm and an estimated 7.5kg. Matt re-released it with the original tag in place in the hope that it would be recaptured again. A quick search of the database revealed that the fish was originally released nearly three years earlier offshore of Shellharbour. It was tagged and released by angler Ian Osterloh, who measured the fish at 70cm and an...

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....