On October 16, Biologist Angela Baran completed a full inventory of the elastomer tagged Tobin Harbor strain coaster brook trout. 

This 2004 year class was tagged in March to determine how well elastomer tags would work for future marking of brood and production fish.  Thirty days after the initial tagging, the fish were inventoried and approximately 10 percent lost their tags completely. 

The full inventory in October showed an additional 20 percent of the fish lost their tags.  This inventory will also help with future color and site choice, for example the blue tags in the adipose eyelid were harder to distinguish without the flashlight because of natural blue coloring around the eye.  Stay tuned for the spring inventory update!