Fish and Marine Animal Tagging
Fish and Marine Animal Tagging, Archival Tags 
Star-Oddi has been a leading edge in developing equipment for research on the oceans and in freshwater and their living resources. Star-Oddi has been specializing in designing Data Storage Tags (also known as Archival Tags) and manufacturing a range of equipment and small underwater data loggers for recording environmental parameters. What makes these archival tags outstanding are the very accurate depth and temperature sensors, large memory size and long batter life along with some advanced programming features. Also the housing is made of bio-compatible material, which does not endanger the health of the tagged animal. The non-transparent housing ensures that the sunlight does not affect the measuring and therefore provides more reliable data.
The DST Archival tags are used by marine biologists and scientists world-wide, here you can see few examples of our customers.
Products:
The Data Storage Tag (DST) is a miniature data logger that is attached to fish and other marine animals. Known for its small size, excellent quality design and attractive prices.
- DST CTD Archival Tag : Is probably the smallest salinity, temperature and depth logger on the world market, its innovative design has given scientists that are using these tags opportunity to map the migration routes of the fish or the marine animal that is under investigation.
We offer three different types of temperature and depth loggers DST Centi, DST milli and DST micro that have different memory size and battery life.
- DST centi and centi-ex temperature and depth logger with large memory and long battery life.
- DST milli, small temperature and depth logger
- DST micro ultra small temperature and depth logger
- DST Pitch and Roll archival tag:
Is ideal to measure the tilt angle of the tagged animal, it measures the tilt angle (x,y) in parallel with temperature and depth.
- DST GPS fish positioning system:
Consists of DST GPS tag that is attached to the fish, or the marine animal and a small portable Fish Positioning Sounder (FPS) that transmits the GPS code underwater, if the tagged fish is within the transmitting range its stores the GPS code that is sent from the FPS in its memory in parallel with temperature and depth. The fish has to be recaptured to retrieve the data. For larger geographic areas the Simrad SP 60, SP 70 or SP 90 sonars can be used to send the GPS code underwater.
- Underwater Tagging Equipment (UTE):
A more bulkier device is the state of the art Underwater Tagging Equipment (UTE) which Star-Oddi has developed since 1997 in co-operation with the Marine Institute of Iceland. The purpose of the UTE is to tag fish underwater (inside the ship's fishing trawl) the main attraction of the UTE is the ability to tag deepwater species which have up till now been impractical or impossible to do. The latest development is the GPS Fish Positioning System which enables the researches to monitor the geographical distribution of fish. The GPS Fish Positioning System will increase knowledge on fish migratory routes, and provide major contribution to sustainable management of fish resources.
Tagging Instructions
Star-Oddi suggestion how to tag a fish, the measuring structure, the fish treatment, the treatment of tags after recaption, identification label on the tag, applied experiments using DSTs and examples of tagging equipment. click here for tagging Instructions or view a video (mpeg) where brown trout is tagged.
Click here and view a video (mpeg) from the tagging in Lake Thingvallavatn, Iceland in December 2003 (20 Mb).
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Examples of Tagged Animals
Star-Oddi products have been used in various situations and numbers of different marine animals have been tagged using the Data Storage Tags. The DSTs have been used for tagging small fish from 15 - 40cm long to tagging large whales and everything in-between. Following is a short list of examples where our products have been used. The list is just an example but not a complete list and we are confident that our products can be used in your field as well.
- Solutions
When developing our products we put high emphasises on developing equipment which can be used to protect, restore and manage the coastal and ocean resources through ecosystem-based management.
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Expertise
Our employees have many years of experience in developing and working with the equipment, our customers are welcomed to use our expertise either on-site or by remote assistance. Our products can be customized to better serve your aims and needs. Do not hesitate to ask for assistance and we will do our best to solve it.