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Tuesday
Dec142010

How to Tag a Fish Every 2.4 Seconds

The US government’s fish-tagging operations used to be a lot like its intelligence-gathering: slow, imprecise, and occasionally responsible for the torture and death of innocent subjects. No more. The Fish and Wildlife Service now uses AutoFish, a mobile system that employs sensors, cameras, and computer algorithms to inject microscopically coded tags into 60,000 fish a day—without removing them from the water.

LINK (Via: Wired)

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