{"id":2174,"date":"2021-07-26T02:46:23","date_gmt":"2021-07-26T06:46:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ncseagrant.ncsu.edu\/hooklinescience\/?p=2174"},"modified":"2023-07-27T14:22:04","modified_gmt":"2023-07-27T18:22:04","slug":"can-we-monitor-juvenile-shrimp-with-microchips","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ncseagrant.ncsu.edu\/hooklinescience\/can-we-monitor-juvenile-shrimp-with-microchips\/","title":{"rendered":"Can We Monitor Juvenile Shrimp With Microchips?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
Scientists test a new technology that\u2019s similar to your car\u2019s EZ-Pass in order to track individual shrimp.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n The ability to track individual animals in coastal and ocean waters has transformed our understanding of animal movement and behavior, as well as the processes affecting animal populations, such as migration, survival, and growth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Passive-integrated transponder (PIT) tags are a common tool to track smaller marine animals. Similar to the technology behind your car\u2019s EZ-Pass or pet\u2019s microchip, these small microchips require no power but encode a unique identification number that a handheld device can read. By attaching or injecting the tag into an organism, scientists can non-lethally monitor the same animal over time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In estuaries, PIT tags have successfully tracked small fishes, like mummichogs and juvenile red drum, but to our knowledge no one had tried them with any size of white shrimp (Litopenaeus setiferus<\/em>). Because of their economic and ecological importance, we set out to test PIT tags on juvenile white shrimp.<\/p>\n\n\n\nResearch Need<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n