The Coastal Conservation Association-South Carolina has helped out the S.C. Department of Natural Resources’ ground-breaking cobia research with a donation of 20 acoustic transmitters and four receivers.
SCDNR biologists have been tracking cobia using acoustic telemetry, which relies on a network of more than 850 receivers located throughout much of the South Atlantic, Caribbean, and Gulf of Mexico. Cobia are captured and an electronic tag is surgically implanted into the body of the fish. The tag emits a “ping” that can be detected when a cobia travels within a quarter-mile of a receiver. When enough fish are tagged and detected, patterns in migration begin to emerge.
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