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Sphyrion Tag Loss from the American Lobster Homarus americanus
Author(s) -
Ennis G. P.
Publication year - 1986
Publication title -
transactions of the american fisheries society
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.696
H-Index - 86
eISSN - 1548-8659
pISSN - 0002-8487
DOI - 10.1577/1548-8659(1986)115<914:stlfta>2.0.co;2
Subject(s) - homarus , american lobster , fishery , biology , zoology , crustacean
Through use of a secondary mark, it was estimated that sphyrion tag loss from American lobsters Homarus americanus recaptured 1 year after tagging amounted to 36% for lobsters that had molted and 24% for those that had not. Much of the substantial tag loss from nonmolting animals may be due to substrate entanglement and removal by other lobsters.