Migratory Striped Bass Fishery Management Plan. Tag return data also provide information on migratory routes, growth rates, migration rates and winter habitat use. Results are used by the Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission, with the assistance of the Fish and Wildlife Service and National Marine Fisheries Service, to manage stocks of Atlantic striped bass in accordance with the Fishery Management Plan and its amendments. A second objective of the cooperative tagging cruise is to capture, measure, remove tissue, tag and release Atlantic sturgeon. The FWS Maryland Fisheries Resource Office coordinates a cooperative coast wide tagging program for Atlantic sturgeon.
Operations are ongoing throughout the day and night.
The participants of the tagging cruises have been responsible for tagging over 24,000 striped bass.