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

[dirty24d]

standard tracker

[predatorpro]

looks expensive, if the government paid for it they probly spent $30,000 on it

[Jamieb]

I did a little search, theres been a lot of research and tracking lingcod in AK and along the east side of Vancouver island.
Heres a example.
http://fishbull.noaa.gov/913/yamanaka.pdf

[dirty24d]

googling stuff on sonar transmitters and stuff looks like they have abunch that measure salinity water temp depths, pressures etc.

[dirty24d]

maybe strapped to a crab that the ling ate!!!

[h20hunter]

Well, sent an email off to our good friends at WDFW. They may know something. They also may be upset if I wasn't supposed to have cut it in half and it was important. Oh well.....not like they have screwed the pooch on anything lately.

[predatorpro]

Well, sent an email off to our good friends at WDFW. They may know something. They also may be upset if I wasn't supposed to have cut it in half and it was important. Oh well.....not like they have screwed the pooch on anything lately.

hunting license cost enough they will have money to buy another

[yelp]

It looks like an acoustic transmitter tag.  Maybe used to track Ling populations.  There are so many different fisheries groups, colleges agencies, countries that conduct these types of studies.  

Pretty neat find.

Check out these links..

http://sanjuansportsman.com/features.aspx

http://www.fish.washington.edu/research/publications/ms_phd/Beaudreau_A_PhD_Sp09.pdf

[MikeWalking]

maybe strapped to a crab that the ling ate!!!

It was in the body cavity, not the stomach.

[lokidog]

I think I read that there was a $1000 reward for the return of those things, intact.....   

[Dansk]

That thar looks like a Vemco V-9 transmitter.  Could have been used by any one of hundreds of organizations to study lings and other groundfish.  You'd be surprised how many groups use this stuff. NOAA, UW Fisheries, WDFW, Skippers, etc. etc.

http://www.vemco.com/pdf/v9_cont.pdf

[predatorpro]

I think I read that there was a $1000 reward for the return of those things, intact.....   

what about $500 for each half?

[Wea300mag]

That thar looks like a Vemco V-9 transmitter.  Could have been used by any one of hundreds of organizations to study lings and other groundfish.  You'd be surprised how many groups use this stuff. NOAA, UW Fisheries, WDFW, Skippers, etc. etc.

http://www.vemco.com/pdf/v9_cont.pdf

I think we have a winner.

[Tony 270WSM]

A buddy of mine found and returned one like that last year and got a cool $1k for it.











































just kidding 

[KINGWOODROW]

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???