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Research article2020Peer reviewed

Long-term retention of alizarin red S marks and coded wire tags in European eels

Simon, Janek; Wickstrom, Hakan

Abstract

Durable marking of fish is an important prerequisite in many fish-ecological studies. In the course of a mark-recapture experiment with small European eels stocked in lakes, marking success rates above 95% were observed for coded wire tags and for alizarin red S marks 1-14 years after stocking. Both marking methods are therefore considered suitable for lifelong marking and tagging of eels, and application in long-term mark-recapture experiments.

Keywords

Anguilla anguilla; Mark-recapture; Farm eels; Glass eels; Lifelong; Stocking

Published in

Fisheries Research
2020, Volume: 224, article number: 105453
Publisher: ELSEVIER

    UKÄ Subject classification

    Fish and Aquacultural Science

    Publication identifier

    DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.fishres.2019.105453

    Permanent link to this page (URI)

    https://res.slu.se/id/publ/104820