You can help collect data on cobia while having a ball catching the fish.
“AquaGreen released 1,500 tagged young cobia this past fall,” Jim Franks of the Gulf Coast Research Laboratory at Ocean Springs said. “Please help us by reporting any catches of these young cobia.
“We’re trying to learn more about their life cycle.”
If you catch a tagged cobia, just call 228-872-4202, or send an email to jim.franks@usm.edu or read.hendon@usm.edu.
Another exciting research project on the Mississippi Gulf Coast is tarpon research.
“Around the 1950s, the tarpon seemed to vanish (from the Mississippi Coast,” Franks said. “Today, baby tarpon are being born in the saltwater marshes, moving out into the bays, where they stay until they’re 5 to 10 pounds and then swimming offshore.
“The Upper Gulf Coast marshes in Mississippi, Louisiana and Alabama may be the nurseries for many of the Gulf Coast tarpon. This ongoing research project will help us learn more.”
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