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Table 1 Number of PSATs deployed on red king crab during 2020 and 2021 for which a pop-up location was estimated and fate of those for which no estimate was computed

From: Estimation of pop-up satellite archival tag initial surface position: applications for eastern Bering Sea crab research

Year

Number deployed

Pop-up location

No Argos error

No Argos location

No suitable location

Premature release

2020

84

79

3

0

0

2

2021

90

46

23

12

6

3

  1. No suitable location refers to tags that had a best available location with Argos error ellipse semi-major axis > 32 km or a semi-major axis error > 7 km with drift time > 37 h. Note that all MiniPAT tags deployed in both years (n = 18 in 2020, n = 12 in 2021) had a pop-up location estimate