Maximising the value of transmitted data from PSATs tracking marine fish: a case study on Atlantic bluefin tuna

Table 1 Deployment statistics for PSATs analysed in this study that that transmitted data. Displacement categories were only calculated for tags that were recovered and subsequently included in data volume comparisons

PSAT	Deployment length	Displacement category	Deployment length (d)	Data messages generated	Proportion of geolocation data messages	Transmission length (d)	Total data set recovered (%)	Geolocation data set recovered (%)
18P0808	Full	Long distance	366	1906	0.19	4.23	7	9
18P0837	Full	Long distance	366	1863	0.2	2.68	13	13
19P0175	Full	Long distance	359	1622	0.22	0.29	2	3
16P1483	Full	Long distance	324	1377	0.24	1.54	14	13
17P0786	Full	Long distance	328	1390	0.24	8.56	50	45
18P0932	Full	Long distance	334	1178	0.28	2.74	23	16
19P0216	Full	Long distance	341	1201	0.28	5.68	17	12
19P0206	Full	Long distance	362	1269	0.29	1.17	4	4
18P0812	Prem	Long distance	292	1241	0.24	6.15	48	40
19P0137	Full	Short distance	315	1117	0.28	4.25	11	10
16P2365	Prem	Short distance	122	733	0.17	7.16	46	49
16P2192	Prem	Short distance	106	451	0.23	10.08	82	76
18P0835	Full	NA	365	1955	0.19	4.31	23	27
18P0813	Full	NA	365	1955	0.19	2.66	18	22
18P0811	Full	NA	365	1955	0.19	0.58	3	4
16P1377	Full	NA	366	1906	0.19	2.28	7	11
18P0832	Full	NA	366	1906	0.19	1.17	12	14
16P1553	Full	NA	319	1356	0.24	6.49	53	59
16P1898	Full	NA	327	1386	0.24	8.65	50	46
18P0814	Full	NA	342	1450	0.24	2.81	28	21
18P0938	Full	NA	334	1182	0.28	2.8	25	18
17P1001	Prem	NA	139	836	0.17	1.24	17	24
17P0976	Prem	NA	130	726	0.18	1.65	3	2
18P0836	Prem	NA	184	982	0.19	2.27	24	28
18P0838	Prem	NA	118	624	0.19	4.44	31	40
17P0960	Prem	NA	183	778	0.23	7.5	57	50
17P0711	Prem	NA	130	553	0.24	6.8	91	82
19P0136	Prem	NA	158	586	0.27	10	76	51
19P0163	Prem	NA	304	1084	0.28	1.16	8	6

Italic cells denote PSATs that were physically recovered and used for data volume comparisons. For “Deployment length”, full deployments met their programmed pop-up dates, whereas premature deployments did not. Premature is abbreviated to “Prem”

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