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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

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