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CMU tracks 17 smallmouth bass near Garden Island with acoustic transmitters, 2007

Also Central Michigan University Garden Island smallmouth bass tracking 2007

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Locator map: Garden Island highlighted within the Beaver Island archipelago
Took place at Garden IslandLocator plate © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL 1.0); depths NOAA; names USGS GNIS. How the plates are drawn.
TypeEvent
Date2007-05
WithinGarden Island
ErasModern era
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Locator map: Garden Island highlighted within the Beaver Island archipelago
Took place at Garden IslandLocator plate © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL 1.0); depths NOAA; names USGS GNIS. How the plates are drawn.
Event
Date
2007-05
Kind
Observation
Where
Garden Island
Carried out by
organization/central-michigan-university
Eras
Modern era
Concepts
wildlifeconservationeducationcommunication
Within
Garden Island

Summary

Central Michigan University reported that it had surgically implanted acoustic transmitters in 17 smallmouth bass from the Garden Island area. Blue jaw tags identified the fish, and anglers were asked to release them or return recovered transmitters to the Beaver Island Biological Station.

Evidence limits

This is a newspaper research notice, not the study dataset, permit, methods paper, or findings about fish movement.

Sources

See the sources block above.

Sources

  1. Beaver Beacon, May 2007, “Bass Tracking.”
    Reports that 17 smallmouth bass from the Garden Island area received acoustic transmitters and blue jaw tags, and asks anglers to release tagged fish or return transmitters to the CMU Biological Station. No public copy of this file is known; the archive holds one and can provide it on request.
    data1 · beaver-island-archive · beaver_beacon · 2007-05_Beaver-Beacon
  2. The held issue scan confirms the research notice and tag illustration.
    data1 · beaver-island-archive · scans · beaver_beacon · issues · 2007-05_Beaver-Beacon

Added 7 August 2026. Recent changes

Cite this article

Beaver Island Archive, “CMU tracks 17 smallmouth bass near Garden Island with acoustic transmitters, 2007”, https://beaverislandarchive.org/events/beaver-island-cmu-bass-tracking-study-2007/, accessed [date], citing Beaver Beacon, May 2007, “Bass Tracking.” (and 1 further source listed on the page).

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