The SSACN / SSTP Tagathon will take place over the weekend 14th/ 15th of November.
The Tagathon is part of our ongoing campaign to highlight the issues around the stocks of spurdog and common skate in Loch Sunart, Loch Etive and surrounding waters as well as raise the public awareness of the urgent need for protection of Scotland’s critically endangered sharks, rays and skate.
Common skate are on the IUCN (International Union for Conservation of Nature) ‘red list’; spurdog are at 5% of their original biomass and evidence from anglers suggests that Lochs Sunart and Etive and surrounding waters have unique resident populations which pup in the region, however, hard evidence is required by the government before they will to take any action to allow stocks to regenerate by protecting them from excessive and unsustainable commercial exploitation.
Anglers will be encouraged to tag as many spurdog and common skate as possible from the shore and boat as tagging is the only non-destructive assessment of sharks available which will help provide the required data.
Shortly we shall be adding a couple of pages to the SSTP and SSACN website designated to the coordination of the Tagathon. In the meantime, if you fancy joining what looks likely to be a fantastic weekend then please register your interest at on the SSACN site or here on the SSTP site.
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