Microchipping Specimen Carp Yes Or No? Let Your Views Be Put Forward

[david87fishing]

I am studying the method of microchipping specimen fish and would like to hear from anglers who fish for specimen fish such as Carp varieties.

What do you know of by the meaning microchipping?

What benefits do you believe the system has?

Is it a good or bad idea?

Send/ POST your views

Cheers
dave

[Fishing Forum Admin]

Welcome to the fishing forum

I am studying the method of microchipping specimen fish and would like to hear from anglers who fish for specimen fish such as Carp varieties.

What do you know of by the meaning microchipping

Basics are its like the old tagging system but done via an IC imbedded under the skin

This will help monitor the fish well and stop thief of fish as long as its only done by trained people

[Norfolkboy]

Could be good for recognizing which fish has been caught (if named) and like richard says, knowing when/if they've been stolen/died.

But would it be a lot of hassle to get a machine or something to "read" the chip to find out what fish it is....

Don't really know much about it though

[delboy]

would you have to plug the fish in to your USB port on your laptop

[pingu]

could see this being used on large commercial lakes where the fisherman pay to catch the specimins, and if combined with biologists to find out more about them then yes but can see no worth in rivers as too costly, will that be another £5 on the licence

[david87fishing]

It would be implemented privately e.g private lake owners would have to pay for it not you. Unless of course the owner raises capital by increasing ticket prices for that venue etc. The E.A only give permision or something i doubt they can deceide whether a venue owner can have his specimens chipped or not.

[david87fishing]

Originally Posted by pinguprogress

could see this being used on large commercial lakes where the fisherman pay to catch the specimins, and if combined with biologists to find out more about them then yes but can see no worth in rivers as too costly, will that be another £5 on the licence

This means E.A would not increase license fees as they are not doing the microchipping.....they dont own peoples fish stocks.






AND NO YOU DONT PLUG IT INTO YOUR USB PORT ha they use a handheld scanning device that reads the unique number on the chip so as you can identify that specimen.



The fish would only be able to be cared for e.g weight measuring, movements of fish, helath of fish by achieving what specimen it is, (By reading the microchip) then they can be recorded either by hand or computer etc