Fishery Biologist Adam Kowalski completed the final updates of the database and met the remaining commitments of a grant funded by the Great Lakes Fishery Trust, during December.

The grant was awarded in 2004 to construct and maintain a database to house tag information such as tag type, tag number, tag location, and tagger contact information. The database has been operational for over a year now and contains over 12,500 passive integrated transponder (PIT) tags and over 100 tag sequences for external tags.

Kowalski completed the final report and submitted it to the Great Lakes Fishery Trust and final payment has been received. Kowalski will continue to maintain and update the database by requesting and entering tagging information annually.

Feedback to Kowalski has been positive and the database seems to be getting a lot of use by biologists looking up information for tagged lake sturgeon they have captured. The database is housed at the Great Lakes Fishery Commission’s web site and can be viewed at the following web address http://www.glfc.org/sturgeontag/index.htm.