Fish behaviour and tracking
Cefas has extensive experience in the development and use of tags in assessing fish behaviour, from traditional mark/re-capture methods to the application of state-of-the-art electronic tags.
Our in-house design team have an international reputation for their development and application of electronic tags (acoustic, radio, combined acoustic/radio and data storage tags) and high-resolution tracking systems. These are used in an increasing number of ways to provide valuable fish behavioural data to assist fisheries managers. Results are used to establish:
- Behaviour of tagged individuals through physical and physiological data
- Stock migration patterns
- Effects of human activities and obstructions on migrations
- Effect of fish behaviour on the efficiency of sampling methods (trawling and acoustic survey)
- Impact of specific patterns of behaviour on stock size and recruitment
Tags
We supply Cefas tags to customers for a wide range of applications around the world.
Our design teams have over twenty years of DST development and expertise. Tags are developed by our in-house team, in close conjunction with our Fisheries Scientists. With this combination of technical expertise and scientific experience our tags are designed to meet the needs of scientists involved with fish and animal behaviour research.
We provide complete customer support from technical sales advice through to application and data interpretation. Our product portfolio includes tags, readers and software, plus all the technical, scientific and sales support you may need.
For more information on Cefas tags please see our tag pages.
