OK... never mind. I re-read the LLTK webpage and these were WILD acoustically tagged smolts.

The obscene mortality could certainly have been surgically induced. Then there's the issue of an acoustic transmitter pinging away like a homing beacon for any potential predator making it easier to target would-be meal.

Damn shame ANY way you look at it.
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