The annual PIT Tag Steering Committee (PTSC) meeting was held online on January 21, 2021. John Tenney from the Portland office and Don Warf from the Kennewick field office presented updates on PTAGIS accomplishments in 2020 and plans for 2021. For more information on those accomplishments and plans, see the presentations linked below.
Portland PTAGIS 2020 Update and Plans for 2021
Field O&M Review for 2020 and Projects for 2021
Gabriel Brooks and Gordon Axel provided an update on the proposal for the NOAA PIT Tag Research & Development project in 2021. Gabriel also gave an update to the PTSC on the progress the Instream PIT Tag Detection System (IPTDS) Subcommittee made during its first year.
Other topics discussed during the meeting include rescheduling the PIT Tag Workshop which was originally going to be held January 2021 to January 2023, testing the new PTAGIS website before rollout, and how best to report the river kilometer values of interrogation sites that have moved up or downstream from the original location.
Please review the meeting notes and contact us or your PTSC representative with any questions or comments.