Fishsuite – Software for Annotating, Photographing, Tracking, and Reporting on Physiological Condition for Telemetry Related Studies

In 2012, we tagged over 24,000 juvenile salmonids with passive integrated transponders (PIT) and acoustic microtransmitters (AMT).  We created a software suite called FishSuite! to gather fish condition assessments on each fish.  FishSuite! expedites annotation, photographing, tracking, and reporting data for tagging studies.  We took over 65,000 photographs using FishBooth! during surgeries,  surgery training, necropsies, and other related activities.  Hundreds of injury, maladies, and other meta-data per fish were ascertained using FishEye!.   For post-processing, FishNote! was created to search, merge, and report meta-data and images from FishEye!, FishBooth!, and P3 (PTAGIS).  Once fish were tagged, and ready for release, fish were placed into buckets labeled with a barcode.  FishBucket! integrates a PIT tag wand with a barcode reader to identify fish in the release bucket.  When ready for release, FishScan!, running on a mobile handheld barcode scanner, annotates the barcode to a release time, date, and location using GPS.  Finally, all of this information can be analyzed using FishStat! to evaluate fish condition observations.  All applications are built to work independently or in series.  FishSuite! represents a new way to collect and coordinate meta-data for tagging and fish condition activities for large scale studies.