Suture-less Implantation of Acoustic Transmitters in Two Salmonids

Michael E. Barnes, Nathan Huysman, Sarah White, Jeremy Kientz and Jill M. Voorhees

International Journal of Sciences, 2020, vol. 9, issue 03, 60-64

Abstract: The surgical incision required to insert acoustic transmitters into fish peritoneal cavities is typically closed with sutures, staples, or cyanoacrylate adhesive. This study evaluated a novel tag insertion technique that did not use any method of wound closure. Twenty-six adult rainbow trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss) and 26 adult brown trout (Salmo trutta) received a small, 6 mm abdominal incision. A dummy acoustic transmitter tag was inserted into half (N = 13) of the fish in each species. Neither group received any wound closure; no sutures, staples, nor adhesives were used. Tag retention, wound healing, and fish survival were monitored weekly for 13 weeks post-surgery. No fish died over the course of the trial. Tag retention was 100% and 85% in the tagged rainbow trout and brown trout, respectively. The wounds in the untagged rainbow trout were all completely healed by six weeks post-surgery, while wounds of the tagged rainbow trout were completely healed at nine weeks post-surgery. Similarly, wounds in the untagged and tagged brown trout groups were completely healed by the fifth and eighth weeks respectively. This study documents the effectiveness of using a small incision with no wound closure methods during insertion of acoustic tags into rainbow trout and brown trout peritoneal cavities.

Keywords: Acoustic Transmitter; Surgery; Rainbow Trout; Oncorhynchus mykiss; Brown Trout; Salmo trutta (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
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DOI: 10.18483/ijSci.2304

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