Human societies depend on marine ecosystems, but their degradation continues. Toward
mitigating this decline, new and more effective ways to precisely measure the status and …

As aquaculture continues to grow and intensify, there is an increasing public concern over
the welfare of farmed fish. Stress and production‐related pathologies and repressed growth …

Considerable technical developments over the past half century have enabled widespread
application of electronic tags to the study of animals in the wild, including in freshwater …

We review studies claiming that fish feel pain and find deficiencies in the methods used for
pain identification, particularly for distinguishing unconscious detection of injurious stimuli …

Freshwater ecosystems constitute only a small fraction of the planet's water resources, yet
support much of its diversity, with freshwater fish accounting for more species than birds …

Telemetry is an increasingly common tool for studying the ecology of wild fish, with great
potential to provide valuable information for management and conservation. For researchers …

An overview of electronic tags that can be used in fish research is given, including radio and
acoustic transmitters, data storage tags (DST, also termed archival tags), pop-up satellite …

External tagging of fish with electronic tags has been used for decades for a wide range of
marine and freshwater species. In the early years of fish telemetry research, it was the most …

The American Fisheries Society (AFS), the American Society of Ichthyologists and
Herpetologists (ASIH), and the American Institute of Fishery Research Biologists (AIFRB) are …

Neglecting to account for the mortality of study animals in ecological research has the
potential to lead to biased interpretation of behaviour. Considering the widespread use of …