Application of pop-up satellite archival tag technology to estimate postrelease survival of white marlin (Tetrapturus albidus) caught on circle and straight-shank ("J") hooks in the western North Atlantic recreational fishery

• Main Authors: Horodysky, AZ, Graves, John
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: W&M ScholarWorks 2005
• Subjects: Fisheries Science Peer-Reviewed Articles; Aquaculture and Fisheries; North Atlantic
• Online Access: https://scholarworks.wm.edu/vimsarticles/1760; https://scholarworks.wm.edu/context/vimsarticles/article/2764/viewcontent/Horodysky_FishBull2005.pdf

Short-duration (5- or 10-day) deployments of pop-up satellite archival tags were used to estimate survival of white marlin (Tetrapturus albidus) released from the western North Atlantic recreational fishery. Forty-one tags, each recording temperature, pressure, and light level readings approximately every two minutes for 5-day tags (n=5) or four minutes for 10-day tags (n=36), were attached to white marlin caught with dead baits rigged on straight-shank ("J") hooks (n=21) or circle hooks (n = 20) in offshore waters of the U.S. Mid-Atlantic region, the Dominican Republic, Mexico, and Venezuela. Forty tags (97.8%) transmitted data to the satellites of the Argos system, and 33 tags (82.5%) transmitted data consistent with survival of tagged animals over the deployment duration. Approximately 61% (range: 19-95%) of all archived data were successfully recovered from each tag. Survival was significantly (P