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Title: Influence of Incision Location on Transmitter Loss, Healing, Survival, Growth, and Suture Retention of Juvenile Chinook Salmon

Abstract

Fisheries research involving surgical implantation of transmitters necessitates the use of methods that minimize transmitter loss and fish mortality and optimize healing of the incision. We evaluated the effects of three incision locations on transmitter loss, healing, survival, growth, and suture retention in juvenile Chinook salmon Oncorhynchus tshawytscha. The three incision locations were (1) on the linea alba (LA incision), (2) adjacent and parallel to the LA (muscle-cutting [MC] incision), and (3) extending from the LA towards the dorsum at a 45° angle, between the parallel lines of myomeres (muscle-sparing [MS] incision). A Juvenile Salmon Acoustic Telemetry System acoustic transmitter (0.44 g in air) and a passive integrated transponder tag (0.10 g in air) were implanted into each fish (total N = 936 fish). The fish were held at 12°C or 20°C and were examined weekly for 98 d. The progression of healing among incision locations and the variability in transmitter loss made it difficult to identify one incision location as the best choice. The LA incisions had a much smaller wound extent (area of visible subepidermal tissue) than MC and MS incisions during the first 28 d of the study. In both temperature treatments, apposition of incisions through daymore » 14 was better for LA incisions than for MC and MS incisions. However, MC and MS incisions were less likely than LA incisions to reopen over time and thus were less likely to allow transmitter loss through the incision.« less

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Publication Date:
Research Org.:
Pacific Northwest National Lab. (PNNL), Richland, WA (United States)
Sponsoring Org.:
USDOE
OSTI Identifier:
1032408
Report Number(s):
PNNL-SA-84610
Journal ID: ISSN 0002-8487; 400403209; TRN: US201202%%28
DOE Contract Number:  
AC05-76RL01830
Resource Type:
Journal Article
Journal Name:
Transactions of the American Fisheries Society
Additional Journal Information:
Journal Volume: 140; Journal Issue: 6; Journal ID: ISSN 0002-8487
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
54 ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES; ACOUSTICS; AIR; FISHERIES; HEALING; JUVENILES; MORTALITY; RETENTION; SALMON; TELEMETRY; WOUNDS; SURVIVAL TIME

Citation Formats

Panther, Jennifer L., Brown, Richard S., Gaulke, Greg L., Deters, Katherine A., Woodley, Christa M., and Eppard, M. Brad. Influence of Incision Location on Transmitter Loss, Healing, Survival, Growth, and Suture Retention of Juvenile Chinook Salmon. United States: N. p., 2011. Web. doi:10.1080/00028487.2011.637003.
Panther, Jennifer L., Brown, Richard S., Gaulke, Greg L., Deters, Katherine A., Woodley, Christa M., & Eppard, M. Brad. Influence of Incision Location on Transmitter Loss, Healing, Survival, Growth, and Suture Retention of Juvenile Chinook Salmon. United States. https://doi.org/10.1080/00028487.2011.637003
Panther, Jennifer L., Brown, Richard S., Gaulke, Greg L., Deters, Katherine A., Woodley, Christa M., and Eppard, M. Brad. 2011. "Influence of Incision Location on Transmitter Loss, Healing, Survival, Growth, and Suture Retention of Juvenile Chinook Salmon". United States. https://doi.org/10.1080/00028487.2011.637003.
@article{osti_1032408,
title = {Influence of Incision Location on Transmitter Loss, Healing, Survival, Growth, and Suture Retention of Juvenile Chinook Salmon},
author = {Panther, Jennifer L. and Brown, Richard S. and Gaulke, Greg L. and Deters, Katherine A. and Woodley, Christa M. and Eppard, M. Brad},
abstractNote = {Fisheries research involving surgical implantation of transmitters necessitates the use of methods that minimize transmitter loss and fish mortality and optimize healing of the incision. We evaluated the effects of three incision locations on transmitter loss, healing, survival, growth, and suture retention in juvenile Chinook salmon Oncorhynchus tshawytscha. The three incision locations were (1) on the linea alba (LA incision), (2) adjacent and parallel to the LA (muscle-cutting [MC] incision), and (3) extending from the LA towards the dorsum at a 45° angle, between the parallel lines of myomeres (muscle-sparing [MS] incision). A Juvenile Salmon Acoustic Telemetry System acoustic transmitter (0.44 g in air) and a passive integrated transponder tag (0.10 g in air) were implanted into each fish (total N = 936 fish). The fish were held at 12°C or 20°C and were examined weekly for 98 d. The progression of healing among incision locations and the variability in transmitter loss made it difficult to identify one incision location as the best choice. The LA incisions had a much smaller wound extent (area of visible subepidermal tissue) than MC and MS incisions during the first 28 d of the study. In both temperature treatments, apposition of incisions through day 14 was better for LA incisions than for MC and MS incisions. However, MC and MS incisions were less likely than LA incisions to reopen over time and thus were less likely to allow transmitter loss through the incision.},
doi = {10.1080/00028487.2011.637003},
url = {https://www.osti.gov/biblio/1032408}, journal = {Transactions of the American Fisheries Society},
issn = {0002-8487},
number = 6,
volume = 140,
place = {United States},
year = {Tue Nov 01 00:00:00 EDT 2011},
month = {Tue Nov 01 00:00:00 EDT 2011}
}