Potential techniques for marking and tagging seahorses

Marking seahorses for research and husbandry was first undertaken in the early 1990’s. In the last fifteen years there has been notable progress adapting marking and tagging methods for perciform fish to the dissimilar morphology of seahorses, but published data remain scarce.

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Morgan, S. & C. Bull (2005). Potential Techniques for Tagging and Marking Seahorses. Project Seahorse Technical Report No.7, Version 1.0. Project Seahorse, Fisheries Centre, University of British Columbia. 27 pp.