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Feasibility of using surgical implantation methods for acoustically tagging alewife (Alosa pseudoharengus) with V5 acoustic transmitters

Anadromous alewives (Alosa pseudoharengus) are abundant in the Canadian Maritimes, where they support lucrative commercial fisheries. Little is known about their coastal movement, and their potential to interact with anthropogenic structures. Acoustic telemetry can provide detailed information on th...

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Autores principales: Tsitrin, Elizabetha, McLean, Montana F., Gibson, A. Jamie F., Hardie, David C., Stokesbury, Michael J. W.
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Publicado: Public Library of Science 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7704014/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33253157
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0241118
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author Tsitrin, Elizabetha
McLean, Montana F.
Gibson, A. Jamie F.
Hardie, David C.
Stokesbury, Michael J. W.
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McLean, Montana F.
Gibson, A. Jamie F.
Hardie, David C.
Stokesbury, Michael J. W.
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description Anadromous alewives (Alosa pseudoharengus) are abundant in the Canadian Maritimes, where they support lucrative commercial fisheries. Little is known about their coastal movement, and their potential to interact with anthropogenic structures. Acoustic telemetry can provide detailed information on the spatiotemporal distribution and survival of fishes in coastal areas, using information transmitted from tagged fishes and recorded by moored receivers. However, few acoustic telemetry studies have been performed on clupeids as they are extremely sensitive to handling, and are often compromised by surgical tag implantation. This research assesses the feasibility of a surgical tagging protocol using novel High Residency acoustic tags in alewives, and establishes a baseline of short-term tagging effects. Alewives from the Gaspereau River population were tagged between 2018 (n = 29) and 2019 (n = 96) with non-transmitting models of Vemco/Innovasea V5 HR tags. Tagging effects were evaluated based on recovery rate, reflex impairment, and necropsy-based health assessments. Alewives responded well to tagging, with low mortality (3%) and no observed instances of tag shedding 72 hours post-surgery. The use of sutures to close the incision site had no effect on recovery times. Water temperature and spawning condition had the greatest effect on the behavioural response of fish to tagging. Our findings suggest that, with proper handling and smaller acoustic tags, telemetry studies on alewives are feasible.
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spelling pubmed-77040142020-12-03 Feasibility of using surgical implantation methods for acoustically tagging alewife (Alosa pseudoharengus) with V5 acoustic transmitters Tsitrin, Elizabetha McLean, Montana F. Gibson, A. Jamie F. Hardie, David C. Stokesbury, Michael J. W. PLoS One Research Article Anadromous alewives (Alosa pseudoharengus) are abundant in the Canadian Maritimes, where they support lucrative commercial fisheries. Little is known about their coastal movement, and their potential to interact with anthropogenic structures. Acoustic telemetry can provide detailed information on the spatiotemporal distribution and survival of fishes in coastal areas, using information transmitted from tagged fishes and recorded by moored receivers. However, few acoustic telemetry studies have been performed on clupeids as they are extremely sensitive to handling, and are often compromised by surgical tag implantation. This research assesses the feasibility of a surgical tagging protocol using novel High Residency acoustic tags in alewives, and establishes a baseline of short-term tagging effects. Alewives from the Gaspereau River population were tagged between 2018 (n = 29) and 2019 (n = 96) with non-transmitting models of Vemco/Innovasea V5 HR tags. Tagging effects were evaluated based on recovery rate, reflex impairment, and necropsy-based health assessments. Alewives responded well to tagging, with low mortality (3%) and no observed instances of tag shedding 72 hours post-surgery. The use of sutures to close the incision site had no effect on recovery times. Water temperature and spawning condition had the greatest effect on the behavioural response of fish to tagging. Our findings suggest that, with proper handling and smaller acoustic tags, telemetry studies on alewives are feasible. Public Library of Science 2020-11-30 /pmc/articles/PMC7704014/ /pubmed/33253157 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0241118 Text en © 2020 Tsitrin et al http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) , which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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McLean, Montana F.
Gibson, A. Jamie F.
Hardie, David C.
Stokesbury, Michael J. W.
Feasibility of using surgical implantation methods for acoustically tagging alewife (Alosa pseudoharengus) with V5 acoustic transmitters
title Feasibility of using surgical implantation methods for acoustically tagging alewife (Alosa pseudoharengus) with V5 acoustic transmitters
title_full Feasibility of using surgical implantation methods for acoustically tagging alewife (Alosa pseudoharengus) with V5 acoustic transmitters
title_fullStr Feasibility of using surgical implantation methods for acoustically tagging alewife (Alosa pseudoharengus) with V5 acoustic transmitters
title_full_unstemmed Feasibility of using surgical implantation methods for acoustically tagging alewife (Alosa pseudoharengus) with V5 acoustic transmitters
title_short Feasibility of using surgical implantation methods for acoustically tagging alewife (Alosa pseudoharengus) with V5 acoustic transmitters
title_sort feasibility of using surgical implantation methods for acoustically tagging alewife (alosa pseudoharengus) with v5 acoustic transmitters
topic Research Article
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7704014/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33253157
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0241118
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