Tagging experiments with salmonids |
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| Authors: | Terje Refstie Dag Aulstad |
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| Institution: | Department of Animal Genetics and Breeding, Agricultural University of Norway, Ås-NLH Norway |
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| Abstract: | In order to find an efficient method for marking fish a tagging experiment has been carried out at the Fish Breeding Experimental Station, Sunndalsøra, Norway. Three different methods have been tried: jaw-tagging, cold-branding and tattooing with two different types of dye. During the winter 1972/1973 relatively large numbers of rainbow trout (12 602), sea trout (2 065) and salmon (13 141) were marked using the three marking methods mentioned. It was found that cold-branding with liquid nitrogen was the most rapid and inexpensive method for marking salmonids; after about one year between 87 and 92% of the fish can be identified.For cold-branding rainbow trout and sea trout an exposure time of 3 sec is too long.Tattooing with fluorescent pigments gave poor results in this experiment but could be a useful method for marking salmonids if a device could be constructed that tattoos bigger spots.Fast blue is not recommended for marking fast-growing salmonids. |
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