marlin from the black marlin, and yet in many 

 photographs Don de Sylva and I are unable to tell 

 anything about the pectoral fin because the fish is 

 hanging up and the fin very commonly will flop down. 

 The shape of the dorsal fin is also important. 



I think it really doesn't cost very much to take three 

 photographs, one of the whole fish, one from un- 

 derneath, and one close-up view of either dorsal fin or 

 the pectoral fin. But don't forget the identification 

 plate with the geographic information on it as a per- 

 manent record. 



I would like to direct this next remark mainly to the 

 scientists. If you ask anglers to do something, then 

 you should give them specific instructions as to what 

 it is you want, and when you do this you assume cer- 

 tain responsibilities. Nothing makes me madder with 

 scientists than to have one of my colleagues commit 

 anglers to doing something and then never follow-up 

 on it. I've seen the late Al Pfleuger of Miami spend a 

 lot of money, and an awful lot of time, gathering data 

 for some biologist and after he did all of this nobody 

 would show up. I think this is the kiss of death in 

 cooperation. If you ask anglers to do something, you 

 have an ethical responsibility to pick up the informa- 

 tion and to provide them with some sort of a report on 

 what it is that you have done with it. 



D. Lewis 



Thank you very much, Dick. I will call next on 

 Peter Goadby, an outstanding sport fisherman and 

 author who has traveled all over the world. 



Peter Goadby (Australia) 



Australia's offshore game fishermen have always 

 been proud of the fact that they have cooperated ac- 

 tively with scientists. Being somewhat isolated, we 

 have realized that the sport fisherman is in a unique 

 position to help the scientist because they are the only 

 ones that can help us with things we are unable to 

 learn. If we record data accurately then the scientist 

 can give us a lot of help. We are as proud of our con- 

 tribution to the "establishment" with the capture of 

 blue marlin at Cairns last season as with the 10 marlin 

 we caught averaging 1,000 pounds each. We are for- 

 tunate in Australia at the moment that in addition to 

 the various government agencies and institutions, 

 there is a well-founded university coming into being 

 at Townsville just 250 miles from the Cairns marlin 

 grounds. There is every indication that some research 

 on the black marlin will be undertaken at this institu- 

 tion. 



The cooperative tagging program in Australia has 

 had remarkable growth, and as an Australian fisher- 

 man I take my hat off to NMFS for the assistance they 

 have given us. It gave us pleasure slamming a tag into 

 a fish knowing that the tag had come from the United 

 States and that the information would come back 



perhaps from a Japanese or Taiwanese longliner 

 through the United States. This really made us feel 

 we were part of a worldwide program. The growth of 

 tagging in Australia is interesting as 10 yr ago there 

 were probably no more than two or three fish released 

 in any one season and recoveries were nil. As you have 

 already heard, there have been two black marlin 

 recoveries already. The first fish was out ap- 

 proximately 360 days and was returned only 100 miles 

 from where it had been tagged. The second one, 1 of 

 the 169 fish tagged at Cairns last season, was out only 

 110 days but had traveled something like 1,440 miles 

 in that time. Tagging is now being started in New 

 South Wales and later we will have the help of anglers 

 even farther south. The program will be not only on 

 marlin, as we are encouraging anglers to tag and 

 release every kind of fish including offshore species of 

 sharks like hammerheads, makos, and blue sharks. 

 We are not really encouraging the release of white or 

 tiger sharks, because we feel if someone got "chopped 

 up" on the beach and a tagged shark was caught we 

 would certainly be in trouble. 



Anglers in Australia have long shown their interest 

 in cooperating in any overseas programs. We were 

 most happy to cut the pectoral girdles from black 

 marlin to send to Dr. Robins, and to provide data on 

 the blue marlin in the Pacific. We would be most hap- 

 py to give any help we can on the size and movement 

 of the black marlin, or anything else anyone wants to 

 do on that species. The same applies to any studies on 

 sharks. We still have a lot of dangerous species of 

 sharks in Australia, and if anyone is interested in 

 them we would be happy to help. As I said previously, 

 this meeting of fishermen and scientists is really 

 great, and I believe the best thing that has happened 

 in sport fishing probably in the last 100 yr. We have 

 always known the names of a lot of scientists, and I 

 guess similarly the scientists have always known the 

 names of a lot of interested charter captains and in- 

 terested sport fishermen. Now we have got names to 

 go with the faces and faces to go with the names, so let 

 us all keep in contact and go forward from here on. 



D. Lewis 



Thank you very much, Peter. I shall call on Mr. 

 William Craig, formerly with the California Depart- 

 ment of Fish and Game and now with NMFS. 



W. Craig (USA) 



I obtained my experience with the billfishes, 

 primarily striped marlin and broadbill swordfish, dur- 

 ing my time with the California Department of Fish 

 and Game. My main responsibilities were to other 

 major programs and moving around in the billfish 

 fishery was quite incidental and confined simply to 

 compilation of adequate catch statistics for these two 

 species. The mercury problem last year finally gave 



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