An effort to place satellite information tags into striped bass has been deemed a success.

Dr. John Graves of the Virginia Institute of Marine Sciences placed six tags into fish last weekend. He has four more tags to deploy.

Part of the sought data deals with mortality in a catch-and-release fishery. So three of the tagged fish were caught on conventional "J" hooks, and the other three were caught on circle hooks.

Only one of the J-hook-caught fish was deep-hooked.

"We were able to remove the hook with no problems, and the fish appeared to be in great shape," Graves said. "All the other fish were hooked in the corner of the mouth."

Graves, who has used similar tags in his white marlin research, said the remaining four tags likely will be in fish by the start of today's Super Bowl. read more