Return a tagged shellfish

Data on the movement and growth of crabs is lacking, so it is very important that when you catch a Cefas tagged crab you record: tag number, date, location, and crab size

Please return the tag (or report the full details requested below) with details of the crab carapace width (mm) and where and when it was caught, using one of the methods below:

Print the attached shellfish tag return form (PDF, 37 KB), complete it and post it with the tag to: Fish Tag Returns, Cefas Lowestoft Laboratory, Pakefield Road, Lowestoft, Suffolk, NR33 0HT, UK

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Complete the online shellfish tag return form

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Telephone the 24 hour tag reporting hotline +44 (0) 1502 524526

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report all details to your local Defra Marine Fisheries Agency (MFA) office

report all details to your local Sea Fisheries Committee Office

Reward

• Reward payments from Cefas of £6 for conventional T-bar tags and £50 for data storage tags, are payable for the return of the full recapture details: tag colour, tag number, date, latitude, longitude, sex, carapace width in millimeters
• There is the opportunity to win up to £1000 in tag number raffles
• For the return of conventional T-bar tags entry into a lottery draw for £500 prize on the anniversary of the project in 2008, 2009 and 2010 using the tags returned during the previous year
• An additional final grand draw with a prize of £500 will also be made in 2011 in which all T-bar tags returned during the project will be entered
• Returned DSTs will be entered into a separate draw to be made in 2010 with a prize of £1000
• For information on the crab tagging project see: Cefas crab tagging programme in the English Channel, 2007 – 2010