Tracking devices aim to monitor fish movements off the UK coastline
United Kingdom
Published Sep 3, 2021
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Tracking devices aim to monitor fish movements off the UK coastline. Researchers have deployed monitoring devices that will help them paint a comprehensive picture of the movements of an endangered marine species and the habitats it prefers to use.
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Scientists from the University of Plymouth worked with the Isles of Scilly Inshore Fisheries and Conservation Authority (IoS IFCA) to deploy 12 acoustic receivers off the island of St Martins. The Isles of Scilly and sites in northern France, off the coast of Brittany (Iroise Sea) and Côtes-d’Armor (Saint Brieuc and Sept-Iles marine park), are some of the last strongholds for the crawfish, where they are also important for small scale coastal fisheries, so information on how they move and behave is critical to ensuring their long term survival. While on the Islands, the team engaged with local commercial fishermen and dive teams, with both groups tagging and releasing crawfish for the project. One of the crawfish has already been spotted 200metres from where it was released, giving an early indication of how these animals travel around and make use of their habitat. The deployment is part of FISH INTEL, a €4.1million project led by the University of Plymouth, and supported by ...
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