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Table 2 Summary of tag detections at key locations and output of rule-based (RB) and pattern-recognition (PR) predator filters for 2016 San Joaquin Chinook salmon case study

From: Diagnosing predated tags in telemetry survival studies of migratory fishes in river systems

Statistic

No filter

Simple RB filter

Complex RB filter

Smolt-only PR filter

Multispecies PR filter

Number of tags released (A0)

648

648

648

648

648

Total number of tags classified in predator

0

93 (14%)

139 (21%)

66 (10%)

89 (14%)

Total number of detection events classified in predator

 

314 (8%)

396 (10%)

324 (8%)

386 (9%)

Number of first-time predator classifications

     

 Upstream of Mossdale (A1–A5)

 

12

17

5

19

 Mossdale through head of Old River (A6–A8/B1)

 

39

67

15

20

 Undine Road to Howard Road (A9–A13)

 

30

37

25

28

 Weston Ranch to Navy Bridge/Rough and Ready Island (A14–A17/R1)

 

5

9

19

20

 Calaveras River to Turner Cut Junction (A18–A20/T1)

 

7

8

2

2

 Head of Middle River (B2, C1)

 

0

1

0

0

Number of total tag detectionsa:

     

 Banta Carbona (A5)

470

467

467

470

465

 Mossdale (A6)

416

415

415

416

415

 Lathrop (A8)

250

249

246

249

247

 Old River East (B1)

32

32

32

32

32

 Brandt Bridge (A12)

108

106

105

104

99

 Garwood Bridge (A16)

79

78

77

63

63

 Turner Cut Junction (A20/T1)

26

24

26

20

20

  1. Only detections in core area or occurring before detections in core area were included. Core area: stations A2–A20, B1, R1, and T1, omits stations A1, B2, and C1 (Fig. 1)
  2. aTag detection counts at all stations are shown in Tag Predation Additional file 1: Table S4