Tagging, Telemetry, & Marking Compendium Project

In 2007, the Fish Population Monitoring Working Group initiated a task to review and catalog tagging, telemetry, and marking protocols in the region. The proposed Techniques Guide provides new information, case studies, design and technological advances and describes methods and protocols. The closing chapters provide a summary of commonalities and areas of technical convergence. The authors used a comparative analysis approach to propose recommendations that will improve tagging, telemetry and marking programs and techniques. This proposal was 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 was 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.

For more information about this past project or specific events related to this project, please contact us at gs-pnamp_contact@usgs.gov.