{"id":124887,"date":"2016-02-03T12:25:23","date_gmt":"2016-02-03T12:25:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/muskies.kracmedia.com\/the-saint-john-river-muskellunge-tagging-project-2006-2015\/"},"modified":"2026-05-08T00:27:47","modified_gmt":"2026-05-08T00:27:47","slug":"the-saint-john-river-muskellunge-tagging-project-2006-2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/muskies.kracmedia.com\/fr\/the-saint-john-river-muskellunge-tagging-project-2006-2015\/","title":{"rendered":"The Saint John River Muskellunge Tagging Project, 2006 &#8211; 2015"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>January 2016<\/strong> &#8211; Steven Kerr and Brandon Jones<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_524\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-524\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/muskiescanada.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/stjohnmuskie.png\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-524\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-524 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/muskies.kracmedia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/stjohnmuskie.png\" alt=\"A Saint. John River Muskellunge\" width=\"300\" height=\"243\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-524\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A Saint. John River Muskellunge (Muskies Canada photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>Executive Summary<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This document has been prepared to summarize results of a muskellunge tagging project which has been conducted on the Saint John River, New Brunswick, from 2006 to 2015 (inclusive).\u00a0 During that period of time, 691 muskellunge have been angled, tagged and released by members of the Sait John River chapter of Muskies Cnada Inc.\u00a0 a total of 64 (9.3%) tagged muskellunge were recaptured by angling.\u00a0 an additional four tagged fish were captured at the Mactaquac Dam fishway.<\/p>\n<p>Most muskellunge were observed to establish discrete summer home ranges from which there was little, if any, movement.\u00a0 Transitional movements are believed to occur during the spring and fall associated with spawning and the establishment of summer and winter ranges.\u00a0 Muskellunge movements which were documented in this study occurred in both upstream and downstream directions in almost equal proportion.\u00a0 Muskellunge also demonstrated the ability to move long distances both upstream and downstream including passage over\/through the Mactaquac dam.<\/p>\n<p>Results regarding muskellunge behavior and movements from this study, to date, are generally consistent with observations (small home ranges, males more sedentary than females, movements seasonal in nature, capable of long distance movements, etc.) reported from similar tagging studies in other North American jurisdictions.<\/p>\n<p>It is proposed that future efforts be directed to obtaining more information on recaptured fish.\u00a0 With additional recapture information, a more detailed analysis of muskellunge in the Saint John watershed can be completed.<\/p>\n<p>Read the full report by clicking the link below (pdf)<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"St. John River Tagging Project , 2006-2015 (Final)\" href=\"https:\/\/muskiescanadadotca.files.wordpress.com\/2016\/01\/st-john-river-tagging-project-2006-2015-final.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">St. John River Tagging Project , 2006-2015 (Final)<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>January 2016 &#8211; Steven Kerr and Brandon Jones Executive Summary This document has been prepared to summarize results of a muskellunge tagging project which has been conducted on the Saint John River, New Brunswick, from 2006 to 2015 (inclusive).\u00a0 During that period of time, 691 muskellunge have been angled, tagged and released by members of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":125051,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63,65],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-124887","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-biology","category-omnr-mfpp-publications"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/muskies.kracmedia.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124887","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/muskies.kracmedia.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/muskies.kracmedia.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/muskies.kracmedia.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/muskies.kracmedia.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=124887"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/muskies.kracmedia.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124887\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":125052,"href":"https:\/\/muskies.kracmedia.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124887\/revisions\/125052"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/muskies.kracmedia.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/125051"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/muskies.kracmedia.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=124887"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/muskies.kracmedia.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=124887"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/muskies.kracmedia.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=124887"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}