How do I request a new Mark/Release/Recovery Location (RELEASE SITE) code?
Contact your PIT Tag Steering Committee representative, who will approve your request and pass it along to PTAGIS for processing. If you are requesting a new definition for a river, lake, or dam, please provide the following information: • The official name of the geographic feature. • Provide the LLID (if feature is a river/stream), Lake ID, or Dam ID; these values should be available from your agency’s GIS department, or through StreamNet. • The name of the parent river, and the distance (in kilometers) from the mouth of the parent river to the mouth of the new stream, or to the new fixed location. • The latitude/longitude coordinates of the lake or dam, or the midpoint of the river. For all other locations (e.g., bridges, islands, etc.), please provide the following information: • The official name of the geographic feature. • The name and LLID of the connecting or parent river, and the distance (in kilometers) from the new location to the mouth of that parent river. • The latitude/
