Pnamp tagging, Telemetry and Marking (ttm) project update N

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   Increase compatibility between the results of different TTM projects and studies.
   
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   Provide a standardized set of design steps and methods for interpretation of the science and future amendments to the science.
   
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   Integrate information from the large and disparate community of TTM designs and practices
   
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   Make recommendations for consistency between projects, programs and technology.
   
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   Make TTM programs increasingly cost-effective through resource sharing and elimination of duplicative efforts.
   
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   Establish a PNAMP resource on the web site for the products of this effort.
   
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   Making the sum total of TTM information available in a compendium with multiple review, peer-review and published for use by the broadest possible audience.
   

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   Information sharing is essential for coordinating many regional and local programs and projects.
   
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   Consistent standards and protocols are necessary for efficient project, program and resource allocation.
   
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   A technical manual/framework complete with methods, protocols, design standards and training and implementation elements is needed to ‘connect the dots’
   
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   PNAMP will do this using existing information and the expertise represented by authors of individual chapters of a protocol manual or handbook.
   

Additionally, just as with the Salmonid Field Protocol Handbook, include techniques, methods and training and implementation information in each chapter.

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  The physical characteristics of the tag.
  
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  How the tag works.
  
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  How the tag is deployed.
  
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  Life expectancy of the tag.
  
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  Infrastructure and labor needed for tag detection.
  
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  The cost of the tag.
  
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  Advantages and disadvantages of tag.
  
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  Examples of their use in projects and/or programs.
  

Identify attributes necessary for designing new tagging programs and/or modifying existing programs:

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  Satellite Tags 
  
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  Archival Tags
  
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  Acoustic Tags and Acoustic Arrays
  
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  Chemical and Biological Markers
  
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  Radio Telemetry
  
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  Transponder and Non-electronic Tags
  
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  Integrated Approaches
  
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  Tagging Data in Fisheries Management
  
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  Type of tagging project and research, monitoring, and evaluation effort
  
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  Purpose of the monitoring (what is the management question)
  
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  Entities utilizing the technology and/or resulting data
  
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  Cost of the monitoring
  
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  Supported by short- or long-term funding source
  
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  Experience of project to date, accomplishments and failures
  

The 137^th Annual Meeting of the American Fisheries Society (San Francisco):

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  Historical overview: The evolution of biotelemetry
  
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  Radio tracking in fresh water: Basic theory and practice
  
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  Underwater acoustics applied to biotelemetry
  
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  Telemetry system architectures
  
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  Techniques for transmitter implantation and evaluation of transmitter effects on fish performance
  
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  Use of remote radio telemetry stations for fisheries studies
  
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  Design of integrated radio-telemetry arrays at hydro dams
  
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  Optimizing radio telemetry receiving systems
  
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  Optimizing three-dimensional acoustic telemetry receiving systems
  
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  Evaluating juvenile salmonid passage and survival at lower Monumental Dam using
  
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  Juvenile salmonid passage at large hydroelectric dams using acoustic telemetry
  
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  Approaches for small and large-scale fish tracking in large river drainages
  
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  Using telemetry for conducting basin-wide assessments of long-distance migrants
  
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  Using biotelemetry for catch-and-release angling research: Applications, opportunities and challenges
  
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  New quantitative standards for fish passage evaluation: Application of event-time analysis to fish passage telemetry data
  
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  Operational considerations in implementing post, a permanent continental-scale array for the West Coast of North America: Measuring salmon smolt movements and survival on the very large scale
  
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  Real-time data processing and geospatial analysis of radio-telemetry data collected from large river systems in British Columbia, Washington and Alaska
  
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  Special considerations for estimating home ranges of fish and amphibians
  
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  Managing telemetry data in a changing technological environment
  

6. 
   Several supporting efforts will also provide additional potential topics, authors and information to this anthology project.
   

These are:

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   Symposium on Anadromous Salmonid Tagging and identification Techniques in the Greater Pacific Region (PCMFC led)
   
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   The Sept. Annual AFS Conference—San Francisco (USGS led)
   
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   Summary of Fish Tagging and Evaluation Techniques Currently Used in the Columbia River Basin (NPCC and ACOE)
   
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   The results from Tagging and Telemetry Focus Group (various agencies)
   
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   The Imaging and Geospatial Information Society (asprs.org annual meeting in Portland next April).
   
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   Advances in Fish Tagging and Marking Technology—AFS and the Australian Society for Fish Biology.