A Permit First 
Tuesday, August 14, 2012 at 12:04AM
El Guapo in Announcements, Science, andy danylchuk, fish science, permit research

 

                             

                                        In the post op recovery pen

An exclusive update from Dr. Andy Danychuk.

My project on Culebra hit a new high.

On Aug 2nd, my PhD student, Jake Brownscombe, hooked up, landed, and surgically implanted an acoustic transmitter in a permit - to our knowledge, the first permit implanted with a telemetry tag EVER! 

Since then we've been tracking the permit using an array of fixed receivers and already have amassed some cool data. Given that the transmitters have a battery life of over 2 yrs, we'll hopefully be able to learn quite a bit about their seasonal movement patterns and habitat use - information that is critical to their conservation and management. 

We'll be sure to post further updates as they come in, in the meantime we have two questions.

Is this a male or female?

Can we give it a name?

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