Animal Biotelemetry

Table 2 Percent survival and percent tag/mark retention (±SE) for Oregon chub 30 and 150 days after treatment

From: Comparison of three methods for marking a small floodplain minnow

	30 days					150 days
	Survival			Retention				Retention
Treatment	Mean	Range	P value	Overt mark	Tag	Survival	P value	Overt mark	Tag
Control	100	-	NA		-	96	-		-
Freeze brand	100	-	NA	98 (1.7)	100	97	0.788	81	98
PICO-tag	96 (2.2)	90-100	0.019		98 (1.0)	94	0.5		95
PIT-tag	86 (2.5)	80-90	<0.001		91 (3.2)	82	0.001		89
PIT-tag + NTR	85 (3.9)	77-90	<0.001		95 (2.8)	82	<0.001		95
Sham	98 (1.8)	93-100	0.123		-	NA	-		-
VIE	99 (0.8)	97-100	0.5	91 (4.1)	98 (1.7)	98	0.5	88	99

Data for each treatment group represents the mean of four replicate tanks (n = 30 fish/tank). P values reflect a one-way binomial significant test and were not adjusted for multiple comparisons. Overt marks were tags that were subjectively scored a 0.

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