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Cost Comparison of Marks, Tags, and Mark‐with‐Tag Combinations Used in Salmonid Research
Author(s) -
Hammer Stanley A.,
Lee Blankenship H.
Publication year - 2001
Publication title -
north american journal of aquaculture
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.432
H-Index - 41
eISSN - 1548-8454
pISSN - 1522-2055
DOI - 10.1577/1548-8454(2001)063<0171:ccomta>2.0.co;2
Subject(s) - biology , microbiology and biotechnology , zoology
Modern fishery management requires knowledge of fish survival and distribution that is best acquired by marking and subsequent recapture. To aid cost‐effective analysis for marking Pacific salmon Oncorhynchus spp. and steelhead O. mykiss , 16 marks, 6 tags, and 3 mark–tag combinations were compared for application and decoding costs per fish. Application costs (1999 US$) ranged from negligible for thermal otolith marks to $6.50/fish for a combination of an adipose fin clip, a coded wire tag, and a passive integrated transponder tag. Decoding costs ranged from negligible for fin clips to $50.00/sample for strontium marked scales.