[Montauk17]

Originally Posted by MathGeek

I've been working hard tracking down this purported tag study, finally contacting the scientists themselves that were mentioned by name in a newspaper article on tripletail tagging.

There are no published papers by these authors (or any other authors) in the scholarly literature on the tagging of tripletail in the last decade.

The data, methodology, results, and interpretation remain unpublished and unavailable for peer-review or open discussion. All we have is the hearsay report of a 2.5 the recapture rate of tagged tripletail compared with other game species.

The LWF Commission should not be implementing much more restrictive tripletail harvest regulations until the science is better understood, including publication and open review and discussion of purported data and scientific results that are cited in support of more restrictive regulations.

Seems like that is the way of the world these days....just like they promised a transparent government yet we have the exact opposite.