Tagging, Telemetry, Marking
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Project leads: Keith Wolf and Jennifer O'Neal (link to contact information)
In 2007, the Fish Population Monitoring WG initiated a task to review and catalog tagging, telemetry, and marking protocols in the region. The proposed Techniques Guide will provide new information, case studies, design and technological advances and will describe methods and protocols. The closing chapters will provide a summary of commonalities and areas of technical convergence. We will use a comparative analysis approach to propose recommendations that will improve tagging, telemetry and marking programs and techniques. This proposal will be reviewed by the Northwest Power and Conservation Council‘s Independent Science Review Panel in early 2008, to assist the PNAMP Steering Committee in making decisions about the final nature of this product.
-The goal of this project is to provide standardization, cost effectiveness, and coordination between and among all tagging, marking, and telemetry programs in the Columbia and Snake River Basins, Puget Sound, the Oregon Coast, Northern California, and beyond.
-The product(s) of this effort will be design, implementation, and data management guidance recommendations for TTM project and programs in the form of PNAMP recommendations via varied published formats.
-The ultimate (and singularly-focused objective of this project) would be to have a set of peer-reviewed and published regional recommendations for a standardized fish tagging, marking, and telemetry program by 2009. These recommendations will focus on the measurement of in-river reach and route-specific fish survival in terms of both juvenile survival and smolt-to-adult returns. This means the program itself must be coordinated and done in a programmatic fashion such that the entire Pacific Northwest (PNW) region can scale and implement TTM efforts of sufficient spatial and population extent to make reasonable inferences and conclusions for management purposes. The program also needs to be able to measure long-term survival. This coordinated program would need to have the capability to be read through all PNW routes of passage in the outmigration corridor and again as the adults return. Ideally, the system that is developed would not require any further handling of the fish after initial handling and tagging occurs (adapted from the TTFC, draft 2007).
Finally, and luckily, we will have the opportunity to incorporate a very large amount of detailed information gleaned from a set of materials and input from: 1) the draft Interagency Tagging Technologies Focus Group (TTFG), 2) the upcoming NPCC review of tagging programs, 3) a set of key publications recently obtained by the FPM WG, and 4) expertise from tagging, telemetry, and marking development sectors into this larger regional and programmatic product.
All documents for the TTM project can be found here. You can also find additional documents related to this project at the FPC website (Comparative Survival Study reports) and the CBR papers and publications list webpage.