The UKSTP is a member of the SHARK ALLIANCE Click on the European Shark Week logo to sign the petition for strengthening of the EU finning ban


TO JOIN OR CONTACT THE UK SHARK TAGGING PROGRAMME
Administrator: Dr Ken Collins
National Oceanography Centre
Southampton SO14 3ZH
email: kjc@noc.soton.ac.uk
Tel/Fax UK: 023 8059 6010

ANGLER or VOLUNTEER?
The programme is aimed at sport shark anglers who record, tag and release the sharks that they catch.

There is also the newly formed Scottish Shark Tagging Programme

If you are not an angler

TAGGING INFORMATION
Introduction
How to Sex a Shark
What we hope to achieve
How Tagging Works
Why Tagging
Weigh slings
What to do if you catch a tagged shark
SHARK SPECIES (UK)
Directory of Domestic Shark Species
Tope (Galeorhinus galeus)
Blue Shark (Prionace glauca)
Blackmouth Dogfish (Galues melastomus)
Bull Huss (Sycliorhiunus stella)
Common Smooth Hound (Mustelus mustelus)
Hammerhead Shark
Lesser Spotted Cat Shark (Scyliorhinus canicula)
Mako Shark (Isurus oxyrinchus)
Angel Shark (Squatina squantina)
Porbeagle Shark (Lamna nasus)
Blunt Nose Six Gill Shark
Spurdog (Squalus acanthias)
Starry Smooth Hound (Mustelus asterias)
Thresher Shark (Alopias vulpinus)
TAGGING RESULTS

14 July 2009, latest recapture of Liverpool: number 021152 female Tope tagged SW Scotland, 4 June 2005

TOPE length/weight conversion

SUMMARY OF TAGGED SHARKS TO DECEMBER 2005

SUMMARY OF RECAPTURES TO JANUARY 2006

TAGGING CHARTER BOAT PORTS
Angelsey
Barmouth
Bideford
Bucklers Hard
Falmouth
Isle of Scilly
Isle of Wight - Yarmouth
Isle of Wight - Bembridge
Jersey
Kilchoan
Littlehampton
Luce Bay
Lymington
Lyme Bay
Minehead
Newquay
Milford Haven
Penarth
Poole
Portdinorwic
Portsmouth - Gosport
Portsmouth - Langstone
Plymouth
Rhyl
Southend on Sea
Wash Area
Weymouth
Whitby
ANGLING METHODS FOR SHARKS AND ANGLING CONSERVATION
Angling Methods for Sharks
Code of Best Practice
Circle Hooks
Circle Hooks for Species
Circle Hook Rigging
Copyright © UK Shark Tagging Programme. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced stored in a retrieval system or transmitted in any form or by any means without the prior written permission of UK Shark Tagging Programme not to be otherwise circulated in any form of binding or cover other than that in which it is published and without similar conditions being imposed on the subsequent recipient.
Supported by the World Wide Fund for Nature Site hosted by National Oceanography Centre, Southampton