Nov 18, 2020
Some Sport Fish Are Caught Repeatedly – Which Could Throw Off Population Estimates
“Think of it this way,” says Brendan Runde, first author of the study and a Ph.D. student at NC State. “Let’s say you tagged 1,000 fish and recaptured 100 of them for a first time. After re-releasing those 100 fish, you would only expect to recapture 10 of them a second time. But that’s not what we’re seeing."