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Title: Performance Assessment of Suture Type in Juvenile Chinook Salmon Surgically Implanted with Acoustic Transmitters

Abstract

The objective of this study was to determine the best overall suture material to close incisions from the surgical implantation of Juvenile Salmon Acoustic Telemetry System (JSATS) acoustic microtransmitters in subyearling Chinook salmon Oncorhynchus tshawytscha. The effects of seven suture materials, four surgeons, and two water temperatures on suture retention, incision openness, tag retention, tissue inflammation, and tissue ulceration were quantified. The laboratory study, conducted by researchers at the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, supports a larger effort under way for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Portland District, aimed at determining the suitability of acoustic telemetry for estimating short- and longer-term (30-60 days) juvenile-salmonid survival at Columbia and Snake River dams and through the lower Columbia River.

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Publication Date:
Research Org.:
Pacific Northwest National Lab. (PNNL), Richland, WA (United States)
Sponsoring Org.:
USDOE
OSTI Identifier:
949906
Report Number(s):
PNNL-18010
400403209; TRN: US200909%%558
DOE Contract Number:  
AC05-76RL01830
Resource Type:
Technical Report
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
13 HYDRO ENERGY; ACOUSTICS; COLUMBIA RIVER; DAMS; INFLAMMATION; JUVENILES; PERFORMANCE; RETENTION; RIVERS; SNAKES; TELEMETRY; US CORPS OF ENGINEERS; WATER

Citation Formats

Deters, Katherine A, Brown, Richard S, Carter, Kathleen M, and Boyd, James W. Performance Assessment of Suture Type in Juvenile Chinook Salmon Surgically Implanted with Acoustic Transmitters. United States: N. p., 2009. Web. doi:10.2172/949906.
Deters, Katherine A, Brown, Richard S, Carter, Kathleen M, & Boyd, James W. Performance Assessment of Suture Type in Juvenile Chinook Salmon Surgically Implanted with Acoustic Transmitters. United States. https://doi.org/10.2172/949906
Deters, Katherine A, Brown, Richard S, Carter, Kathleen M, and Boyd, James W. 2009. "Performance Assessment of Suture Type in Juvenile Chinook Salmon Surgically Implanted with Acoustic Transmitters". United States. https://doi.org/10.2172/949906. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/949906.
@article{osti_949906,
title = {Performance Assessment of Suture Type in Juvenile Chinook Salmon Surgically Implanted with Acoustic Transmitters},
author = {Deters, Katherine A and Brown, Richard S and Carter, Kathleen M and Boyd, James W},
abstractNote = {The objective of this study was to determine the best overall suture material to close incisions from the surgical implantation of Juvenile Salmon Acoustic Telemetry System (JSATS) acoustic microtransmitters in subyearling Chinook salmon Oncorhynchus tshawytscha. The effects of seven suture materials, four surgeons, and two water temperatures on suture retention, incision openness, tag retention, tissue inflammation, and tissue ulceration were quantified. The laboratory study, conducted by researchers at the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, supports a larger effort under way for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Portland District, aimed at determining the suitability of acoustic telemetry for estimating short- and longer-term (30-60 days) juvenile-salmonid survival at Columbia and Snake River dams and through the lower Columbia River.},
doi = {10.2172/949906},
url = {https://www.osti.gov/biblio/949906}, journal = {},
number = ,
volume = ,
place = {United States},
year = {Fri Feb 27 00:00:00 EST 2009},
month = {Fri Feb 27 00:00:00 EST 2009}
}