Bald Eagles Eating Tagged Salmon / Eagle Nova Films

Bald Eagles eating a tagged salmon in the Chehalis River estuary in Harrison Mills, British Columbia, Canada. This video was shot from Eagle Point (near the Sandpiper Golf Course). This is the Harrison River just prior to entering Fraser River.

This video was recorded on the morning of November 3, 2013. We didn't notice the yellow "tag" on the salmon until we started editing this shot. Not being familiar with the tagging of fish, we were initially a bit confused; and wondered, "How did a yellow 'sticker' end up on a salmon?"

We've learned that this is one way fish are tagged by researchers who hope to learn more about them (population, travels, etc).

We've learned about some specific tagging studies in British Columbia and Alaska, but at this point, we have no specific information about the tag in this video (who tagged the fish, where was it tagged).

We'll update this video's description if we learn more about this specific tag.

This video was shot from a distance of about 200 meters.

Camera: Nikon D4. 2.7 crop factor + 800mm lens + 1.2 teleconverter = 2592 mm.

Photographer: Christian Sasse
Editor: Mark Horner

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