Found this inside a lingcod, any ideas? Updated with Answers!!!! BUMP!!!!

[Lincoln4]

 

[KINGWOODROW]

1st post, sorry couldnt resist... appologies for the sub-par paint shop job   

[fishermanjoe]

I think that might be a tracking device related to the little strips of metal put in the snout of salmon. I think it is bigger because of the species. They are not gps trackers, they have a number encoded in them to tell researchers where, when, and how big it was when it was tagged. Maybe it was a planted ling, never herd of planting cod but it is a possibility.

[runamuk]

Standby, pics loading, Cut that Biotch right in half.

you are brave that could have been a suicide cod 

It could have been Osama Lingcodden???   

that pic is almost as good as the bunny with a pancake  nice....the great lingcod war now has a leader

[h20hunter]

Just got word back from Vemco. This is their product and was shipped to somebody in Seattle. She is fwding my email and the researcher may be contacting me. Hope they got what they needed before I cut it open.

[h20hunter]

So, here is the final word. I have been in contact via email with Kelly of NOAA Fisheries. This fish was tagges in Sept of 2008 in the same area. We caught it 21 months later and it had grown 10 inches. Here is a pic of the fish in case you haven't seen it.

[lokidog]

Cool, did they tell you what information the tag was collectingt?  10" in less than two years, good growth rate.

[carpsniperg2]

yeah thats cool kinda like a bird band   did you ask him how much he would buy it back from you for

[h20hunter]

I didn't ask for $ or if they wanted it back. I kind of cut it in half......

[1morebuck]

Yes, I would call Dave Ware (wdfw) and tell him about it. But then again, he will just tell you to call the tribes because the WDFW cannot do its own research anymore, it is all given to the tribes to decide if there are any fish left!

[Alchase]

So probed by NOAA,
that explains why the turn blue!

[h20hunter]

Just giving this a bump for all you lingcod guys. What made me think of it was in this month Northwest Sportsman they used the same pic again. Kind of a fun story.

[Alchase]

Why do all those tracking devices look like suppositories 



Um, never mind 

[h20hunter]

Sorry....you apparently know more about that type of thing than I do.....

[Alchase]

 

LOL