The potential use of PIT telemetry for identifying and tracking crayfish in their natural environment

By D. Bubb, M. Lucas, T. Thom, Philip Rycroft. Hydrobiologia, 2002

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A method for tracking crayfish and other benthic animals in rivers and streams, based on passive integrated transponder (PIT) technology, using a portable detector was investigated. The effect of implanting crayfish with PIT tags and the efficiency of the PIT tag detector system at locating tags is described. In a laboratory study 30 signal crayfish Pacifastacus leniusculus (>33.7 mm carapace length) were internally implanted with PIT tags (12-mm long×2.1-mm diameter) and 30 crayfish matched for size and sex were kept as controls and maintained for 6 months. Tagging had no significant effect on survival, moulting or growth of crayfish, and tag retention was 100%. The reader unit consists of an antenna coil mounted on a pole and designed to be moved over the streambed to search for tagged crayfish. Efficiency testing indicated that more than 80% of tags were identified and located when hidden within different stream microhabitats.

Subfields: Ecology

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1. E. Thorstad
2. S. Cooke
3. J. Thiem
4. M. Lucas
5. Robert Arlinghaus
6. C. Suski
7. Frederic Bartumeus

Citations in the corpus

• Tracking animals in freshwater with electronic tags: past, present and future (2013, methodology): “Mobile PIT detectors (backpack and boat or trawl-mounted models for example [89]) have been developed as a less obtrusive method for studying the ecology of refuge-seeking or cryptic species of fish, invertebrates (for example crustaceans [90,91], molluscs) and amphibians [92].”