A Technique for Marking Small Fish with Injected Fluorescent Dyes

1 October 1970

journal article
Published by Canadian Science Publishing in Journal of the Fisheries Research Board of Canada

Vol. 27 (10) , 1889-1891
https://doi.org/10.1139/f70-211

Abstract

Individual fish or small groups of fish can be marked by injecting small amounts of fluorescent dye under the skin. This method caused no apparent injury to stickleback or to a fathead minnow. The marks produced were still visible after 8–11 months.

Keywords

SMALL GROUPS
FATHEAD MINNOW
NO APPARENT
SMALL FISH
INDIVIDUAL FISH
SMALL AMOUNTS
MARKING SMALL
INJECTED FLUORESCENT
INJECTING SMALL

This publication has 3 references indexed in Scilit:

Tattoo-Marking of Fingerling Salmonids with Fluorescent Pigments
Journal of the Fisheries Research Board of Canada, 1968
Marking Freshwater and a Marine Fish by Injected Dyes
Transactions of the American Fisheries Society, 1967
A Thermal-Marking Technique for Juvenile Salmonids
Transactions of the American Fisheries Society, 1965