One of the major objectives of this dolphin tagging expedition to Mexico has been to tag large fish greater than 36" and 20 lbs. When we conceived this expedition last September, it was Don Hammond's idea that tagging and tracking the these dolphin would give us deeper insight to migration patterns. We selected Isla Mujeres in June as the best location since it is known for the big dolphin run this time of year. So far we have not found many big fish. In the past three days of fishing, we have tagged 76 dolphin with 7 fish 35" long or better. The average tagged fish is 20".

Shown above is an estimated 40" bull dolphin we tagged yesterday. You can see the red tag placed on his shoulder. We are back to sea today in a few minutes, fishing the same general location as shown on previous gps/google earth maps. We will update our GIS/GPS dataset and post again later when we are back at the dock.