Animal Biotelemetry

Table 5 Percent of days with line detection probability (DP _pass) >0.80 or (DP _pass) equal to 1.0 estimated by simulating virtual fish moving through a receiver line

From: Probability of acoustic transmitter detections by receiver lines in Lake Huron: results of multi-year field tests and simulations

Tag	Line	Receiver spacing	Days ≥ 0.80		Days = 1.0
Tag	Line	Receiver spacing	0.5 m s⁻¹	1.0 m s⁻¹	0.5 m s⁻¹	1.0 m s⁻¹
1	1	500	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0
3	2	500	99.8	99.7	99.0	96.2
5	3	500	96.4	95.1	94.0	90.6
7	4	500	100.0	100.0	100.0	99.0
1	1	1000	100.0	100.0	100.0	99.3
3	2	1000	99.8	98.8	96.6	87.5
5	3	1000	95.9	94.0	92.3	86.7
7	4	1000	100.0	100.0	99.4	96.7
1	1	3000	98.4	98.1	95.0	86.7
3	2	3000	85.0	79.5	61.2	43.1
5	3	3000	92.3	88.4	78.5	66.5
7	4	3000	96.3	93.7	80.2	62.6

Simulation results included three distances (500, 1000, and 3000 m) and two movement rates (0.5, 1.0 m s⁻¹). Virtual fish (N = 1000/day) were swum through virtual receiver line, and detection of acoustic transmissions was simulated using daily range detection curves at four locations in Lake Huron

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