It is official; the new 0.5 g micro acoustic tag will be available this fall. Referred to as the Model 800 Micro Acoustic Tag, it is the newest and lightest acoustic tag from HTI weighing in at 0.5 grams. This tag is the smallest of the seven acoustic tags available used to track aquatic life in high-resolution 3D.

Whether watching behavior in real-time or during post-processing, the micro tag is ideal for tracking the behavior of small fish, e.g. juvenile salmonids. In addition to being able to simultaneously track hundreds of fish in the same area, researchers can remotely access data from anywhere in the world - making this research equipment both dynamic and unique.

FSBI Annual Conference
26-30 July 2010
Belfast, UK

HydroVision International
27-30 July 2010
Charlotte, NC USA

FSAM 2010 Fish Sampling
with Active Methods
8-11 Aug. 2010
Czech Republic

DINFISH 2010 Dynamics
of Inland Fish & Fisheries
13-16 Aug. 2010
Czech Republic

Hydropower Africa 2010
16-20 Aug. 2010
Johannesburg, Africa

4th International Symp. on
Fish Otolith Research
23-28 Aug. 2010
Monterey, CA USA

American Fisheries Society
Annual Meeting
12-16 Sept. 2010
Pittsburgh, PA USA

World Energy Congress
12-16 Sept. 2010
Montreal, Canada

FSAMLR 2010 Fish Sampling
with Active Methods
15-19 Sept. 2010
Czech Republic

Oceans 2010
20-23 Sept. 2010
Seattle, WA USA

2010 ICES Annual Science Conference
20-24 Sept. 2010
Nantes, France

Integrating Renewable
Energy Sources
23-24 Sept. 2010
Stockholm, Sweden

Hydro 2010
27-29 Sept. 2010
Lisbon, Portugal

6th Biennial Bay-Delta
Science Conference
Ecosystem Sustainability:
Science for Managing
California’s Water Future
27-29 Sept. 2010
Sacramento, CA USA

Wild Trout Symposium X
28-30 Sept. 2010
W. Yellowstone, MT USA

For a list of pulse rates and more,
visit Model 800 Micro Acoustic Tag.

HTI has announced a new software viewing component soon to be available for displaying acoustic tag tracking results in either post-processing or real-time. Referred to as Georeferenced Imaging - this new feature puts tag tracks in a GPS coordinated aerial display.

In AcousticTag software, acoustic tag data is
shown in an animated, interactive display allowing users to view position echos, large groups of
echos, or the entire track for each fish. While actively viewing tag tracks within the program, the viewer is able to adjust the field-of-view and move spatially within the program (forward, backward,
up, or down) - providing various perspectives for
any given tag track. To find out more, email HTI
for details.

Boundary Dam is one of the most dependable sources for energy in Washington. It is located on the Pend Oreille River; roughly 100 miles north of Spokane, Washington. The six turbines provide half of the total power requirements for the city of Seattle.

The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission license for this project was up for renewal in 2011. SCL worked with Tetra Tech and HTI to conduct fish entrainment and habitat
connectivity studies in support of their relicensing application.

One goal of the studies was to estimate the number, size, species, and timing of fish that
may be entrained through the dam’s turbine intakes and spillways. The HTI hydroacoustic
split-beam system provided high temporal
and spatial sampling coverage at each
potential fish passage route, quantifying fish entrainment 24 hours a day, 365 days per year, over a 2 year period.

“Boundary Dam is a challenging site”,
explained Peter Barton, fish and aquatics
study coordinator for Boundary's relicensing team. To learn more about this study, read
more here or email the HTI project lead, Patrick Nealson.

Bob Kapinos has been with HTI since 2006. He is known for his sharp attention to detail and witty sense of humor. He started out at University of Washington and has been involved in several roles that all seem to revolve around the sciences and manufacturing. Over the past decade, Bob has managed international manufacturing depts. creating tools for research. His engineering and production know-how continues to deliver for our researchers using advanced acoustic tag and hydroacoustic fisheries tools.

Hi Bob! Where are you originally from?
I was born in Aberdeen, Washington and grew up in Auburn which at the time was a railroad town surrounded by truck farms. I now live in North Seattle.

What do you love about your work?
Ah, well, I've been fortunate. For the last 25 years of my career, I've had one foot in product development and one foot in manufacturing. I really enjoy ushering new products from engineering into production.

What is your favorite fish and why?
You know, there's nothing quite like waking up on a cold autumn morning, crawling out of your tent by the high mountain lake, and pulling your breakfast right out of the water. It's typically cutthroat or rainbow in these parts. Gotta love that.

What is something most people do not know that you have done? I worked as the metallurgist in an iron foundry for 10 years in Georgetown, just south of Seattle. Working around molten metal was fun, the heat, the energy, the idea that you are doing basically the same thing some ancient metal-worker did centuries ago, all added to the excitement. I oversaw pouring of everything from manhole covers to tiny gear parts for jets and 80,000 castings for Lawrence Livermore Laboratories.

Thanks for your time today, Bob!

Quickly improve your fisheries evaluation skills with a two-day intensive short course. Course dates are now set for winter and offer a semi-annual opportunity to prepare for a project or for field season using acoustic tags and hydroacoustic echo sounders.

It is a great place to take your knowledge and experience to the next level. There are two courses available:

    Using Acoustic Tags for Tracking Fish
    3-4 February 2011, Seattle, WA USA

    Using Hydroacoustics for
    Fisheries Assessment
    10-11 February 2011, Seattle, WA USA

Classes are kept small and seats are now available. To find out more, click here.

Need to find a good fish photo to communicate monitoring efforts? Whether you need an image for educational purposes, a presentation, a report, or just for a new fishy laptop screen saver - this is a great place to start.

Our fisheries research team has compiled a collection of images available as a free resource. Under a Creative Commons license, the HTI image resource allows others to copy, distribute, and display work for non-commercial purposes with an image credit to the photographer.

This free collection of images is constantly growing and changing (especially after migration season). Stop by and take a look.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/fisheries/

The Vernalis Adaptive Management Program (VAMP): Report of the 2010 Review Panel, May 2010, California, USA

Tracking the Eel - FISH Magazine, UK

Euphausiid distribution along the Western Antarctic Peninsula - (A) Development of robust multi-frequency acoustic techniques to identify euphausiid aggregations and quantify euphausiid size, abundance, and biomass - Lawson, G.L., P.H. Wiebe, T.K. Stanton, and C.J. Ashjian. 2008. Deep-Sea Research II, 55, 412-431.

Euphausiid distribution along the Western Antarctic Peninsula - (B) Distribution of euphausiid aggregations and biomass and associations with environmental features - Lawson, G.L., P.H. Wiebe, C.J. Ashjian, and T.K. Stanton. 2008. Deep-Sea Research II, 55, 432-454.

Determining dominant scatterers of sound in mixed zooplankton populations - Lavery, A.C., P.H. Wiebe, T.K. Stanton, G.L. Lawson, M.C. Benfield, and N. Copley. 2006. J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 122, 3304-3326.

Email the title of your book and why by August 1st and you could win cool fish gear.

We'll compile a Top Ten List to share in the next Fisheries Acoustics Quarterly.