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NY Sea Grant King Salmon Video Highlights Value, High-Tech Fish Tracking

    Press Release: November 13, 2017
    More Info: Cornell Chronicle article: http://news.cornell.edu/stories/2017/09/satellite-tags-researchers-track-protect-lake-ontario-king-salmon

    NY Sea Grant King Salmon Video Highlights Value, High-Tech Fish Tracking

    Oswego, N.Y.; November 13, 2017.  New York Sea Grant has released a video highlighting the value of king salmon to the Lake Ontario ecosystem and local economies, and how Cornell University researchers and Sea Grant personnel are using pop-off satellite archival tags developed to work in freshwater to collect unprecedented data about salmon movement and behavior. Free access to the video is posted at https://youtu.be/pb4wJQc-O7A.

    New York Sea Grant Fisheries and Ecosystem Health Specialist Jesse Lepak wrote and narrated the 3-minute video that shows the tagging process and highlights the value of the data collected by the tags.

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