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Abstract
The Atlantic Horseshoe crab, Limulus polyphemus, is a valuable resource along the Mid-Atlantic coast which has, in recent years, experienced new management paradigms due to increased concern about this species role in the environment. While current management actions are underway, many acknowledge the need for improved and updated parameter estimates to reduce the uncertainty within the management models. Specifically, updated and improved estimates of demographic parameters such as adult crab survival in the regional population of interest, Delaware Bay, could greatly enhance these models and improve management decisions. There is however, some concern that difficulties in tag resighting or complete loss of tags could be occurring. As apparent from the assumptions of a Jolly-Seber model, loss of tags can result in a biased estimate and underestimate a survival rate. Given that uncertainty, as a first step towards estimating an unbiased estimate of adult survival, we first took steps to estimate the rate of tag loss. Using data from a double tag mark-resight study conducted in Delaware Bay and Program MARK, we designed a multi-state model to allow for the estimation of mortality of each tag separately and simultaneously.
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| Publication type | Conference Paper |
|---|---|
| Publication Subtype | Conference Paper |
| Title | Estimating tag loss of the Atlantic Horseshoe crab, Limulus polyphemus, using a multi-state model |
| Year Published | 2012 |
| Language | English |
| Contributing office(s) | Coop Res Unit Atlanta |
| Conference Title | 97th ESA Annual Convention |
| Conference Location | Portland |
| Conference Date | August 5-9, 2012 |
| Country | United States |
| State | Delaware, New Jersey |
| Other Geospatial | Delaware Bay |
| Online Only (Y/N) | N |
| Additional Online Files (Y/N) | N |
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