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• Pendills Creek NFH Completes Coded Wire Tag Retention Checks
• Clipping fins a chilly operation at hatchery
• New 2012 Price List
• New 2012 AFS Spare Parts List
• The NEW T - Wand is now available!
• T- Wand User's Guide
• T-Wand Video
• MKIVb version 2.1 Updater software available
• Innovative Research Grant recipients announced!
• Mass Fish Marking in Great Lakes

                 

• Coded Wire Tags (CWT) may be used for individual or batch identification.
• Visible Implant Elastomer Tags are injected internally but are externally visible.
• VI Alpha Tags are implanted beneath transparent tissue but remain externally visible for individual identification.
• AutoFish System can be customized to perform sorting, clipping, and coded wire tagging.
• Fish Counters for accurate counting of juveniles and adults.

Every tagging project has unique objectives and characteristics that affect the choice of the most appropriate tag. Selecting the right tag is crucial to collecting unbiased data that can contribute to answering the questions at hand. To help you understand NMT's tags, we provide a general overview here. After reading the table and related web pages, please also review relevant publications and contact NMT's Biological Services to discuss your needs.