How did a PIT tag from a steelhead released from Ringold Hatchery end up in New Zealand?
A PIT tag implanted in a Columbia Basin steelhead released from Ringold hatchery in April, 2005, and subsequently detected at Bonneville Dam in May, 2005, was recovered almost two years later, in April, 2007, from a sooty shearwater chick on a small island in the far south of New Zealand. [ Click here for more info…