caa a22 4500 60622842X CHVBK 20210128101203.0 cr unu---uuuuu 210128e20151101xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s10641-015-0440-2 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s10641-015-0440-2 An overview of the tarpon genetic recapture study in Florida - a citizen science success story [Elektronische Daten] [Kathy Guindon, Carole Neidig, Mike Tringali, Samantha Gray, Thomas King, Chris Gardinal, Ben Kurth] The tarpon Genetic Recapture Study started in an effort to determine how often a tarpon is caught and released in Florida's growing and lucrative fishery by using DNA fingerprinting techniques as a tool to identify and track individual tarpon. Previous research on central and southwest Gulf of Mexico fisheries showed that most tarpon can survive short-term catch-and-release fishing practices. However, fishing pressure is intense during peak season, and tarpon fishing varies in time and space throughout the state. In this study, a novel method of obtaining fish tissue replaced traditional fin clipping, and citizen-scientists were utilized to collect DNA samples and record capture information from tarpon they caught. Benefits of using citizen scientists included being able to sample fish statewide and collect data on a species that is difficult to catch in great number. From the pilot study in 2005 through the study's end in 2014, 24,572 samples were received from volunteer anglers throughout the coastal southeastern United States, and of those, 22,992 were collected from tarpon caught in Florida waters. tarpon samples were returned from fish caught along the Gulf and Atlantic Coasts and Florida Keys, but regionally the database was depauperate in samples from north Florida. Public outreach was a critical and integral component of study promotion and angler involvement. Future work based on recapture data will provide information needed to estimate recapture rates, evaluate seasonal and regional movement patterns, determine site fidelity, establish connectivity of tarpon in Florida waters and over the long-term could determine if juvenile tarpon sampled within Florida nursery habitats supply the adult fishery. Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht (outside the USA), 2015 Tarpon nationallicence Genetics nationallicence Mark-recapture nationallicence Citizen science nationallicence Megalops atlanticus nationallicence Guindon Kathy Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission, Fish and Wildlife Research Institute, 100 8th Avenue SE, 33701, Saint Petersburg, FL, USA aut Neidig Carole Directorate of Fisheries and Aquaculture, Mote Marine Laboratory, 1600 Ken Thompson Parkway, 34236, Sarasota, FL, USA aut Tringali Mike Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission, Fish and Wildlife Research Institute, 100 8th Avenue SE, 33701, Saint Petersburg, FL, USA aut Gray Samantha Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission, Fish and Wildlife Research Institute, 100 8th Avenue SE, 33701, Saint Petersburg, FL, USA aut King Thomas Directorate of Fisheries and Aquaculture, Mote Marine Laboratory, 1600 Ken Thompson Parkway, 34236, Sarasota, FL, USA aut Gardinal Chris Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission, Fish and Wildlife Research Institute, 100 8th Avenue SE, 33701, Saint Petersburg, FL, USA aut Kurth Ben Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission, Fish and Wildlife Research Institute, 100 8th Avenue SE, 33701, Saint Petersburg, FL, USA aut Environmental Biology of Fishes Springer Netherlands 98/11(2015-11-01), 2239-2250 0378-1909 98:11<2239 2015 98 10641 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10641-015-0440-2 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10641-015-0440-2 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Guindon Kathy Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission, Fish and Wildlife Research Institute, 100 8th Avenue SE, 33701, Saint Petersburg, FL, USA aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Neidig Carole Directorate of Fisheries and Aquaculture, Mote Marine Laboratory, 1600 Ken Thompson Parkway, 34236, Sarasota, FL, USA aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Tringali Mike Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission, Fish and Wildlife Research Institute, 100 8th Avenue SE, 33701, Saint Petersburg, FL, USA aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Gray Samantha Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission, Fish and Wildlife Research Institute, 100 8th Avenue SE, 33701, Saint Petersburg, FL, USA aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- King Thomas Directorate of Fisheries and Aquaculture, Mote Marine Laboratory, 1600 Ken Thompson Parkway, 34236, Sarasota, FL, USA aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Gardinal Chris Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission, Fish and Wildlife Research Institute, 100 8th Avenue SE, 33701, Saint Petersburg, FL, USA aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Kurth Ben Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission, Fish and Wildlife Research Institute, 100 8th Avenue SE, 33701, Saint Petersburg, FL, USA aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Environmental Biology of Fishes Springer Netherlands 98/11(2015-11-01), 2239-2250 0378-1909 98:11<2239 2015 98 10641