The new orders extend the company’s participation in a project currently underway to develop a PIT-tag system for monitoring salmonids using the spillways at hydroelectric projects in the Columbia and Snake River basins in the US Pacific Northwest.
In its work with US federal agencies in the Pacific Northwest, Destron Fearing employs PIT technology in conjunction with radio frequency identification (RFID) antennas to monitor salmonid movement as they migrate out of their native streams and pass the dams in the Columbia and Snake River Basins. The salmonid population’s vulnerability to habitat loss, hydroelectric dams, and over-fishing makes these monitoring programs a crucial element in their survival.
