LANSING, MI-- The Michigan Department of Natural Resources is again urging anglers who catch marked and tagged fish to report them.
The DNR has used a coded-wire tag program to mass-mark various fish species in Michigan since the 1980s. The marking provides critical data for biologists, who use it to determine the value of naturally reproduced fish versus stocked fish and the movement of fish through the lakes.
The tag program involves implanting a small, coded-wire tag that’s naked to the human eye in the snout of a fish. A tagged fish will have its adipose fin removed.
An angler who catches a tagged fish can record information about where and when the fish was caught, then remove and freeze the snout. A list of locations to drop it off is at Michigan.gov/dnr.
