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Fish PIT tag 2007 - passive integrated transponder

Detecting fish in the fast lane

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This coming spring as salmon and steelhead smolts head to the ocean past Lower Granite Dam many of those fish will be swimming past a new PIT-tag detection system on one of the dams spillways. This new system will provide a lot of new information to help managers get a better understanding of how well Idaho's smolts make it to the ocean each year. Click the link below for a NOAA Fisheries article with more information on the project.

 https://www.fisheries.noaa.gov/feature-story/new-fish-detection-gathers-salmon-survival-data-faster-blink-eye

Read the latest news and information about wild fish in Idaho on our Wild Salmon and Steelhead pages.