Scientists play a game of cat and mouse in the hunt for a tracking tag taken from a Cornwall beach.
A tourist who picked up a tracking tag on a beach in Cornwall has been located by University of Exeter scientistsThe tag had been attached to an Atlantic bluefin tunaBrodie OwenA tourist who picked up a tracking tag on a beach in Cornwall has been found hundreds of miles away by a team of marine scientists who were desperate to get it back.
The tag, which had been attached to an Atlantic bluefin, belonged to University of Exeter scientists who were using it to study the movements of the tuna.'Game of cat and mouse'He said he couldn't ring the number printed on the device because of a lack of mobile reception where he was staying. The students were about to resume their search for a third day before the tag somehow made its way up the M5 to Birmingham.Dr Lucy Hawkes, from the University of Exeter, took to the airwaves in the hope of getting a message to him.
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