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Rototag

A plastic sea turtle tag that allows unique indentification of individual sea turtles, as with PIT and Inconel tags. These are usually brightly coloured and easy to read. The flipper must first be pierced with a special tool, and the 2 sides of the plastic tag are then snapped together. The tag cannot be removed without destroying it, although plastic tags are more prone than other tags to wear, brittleness and getting tangled in gill nets. Their use is therefore restricted in some areas. However, they are the only sea turtle tag that can be easily read at distance.

See also: PIT tag   Inconel tag   Titanium tag

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Entered by: Lucy Hawkes
Modified by: Michael Coyne
Entered: 2005-05-06 09:46:45
Last modified: 2005-05-08 15:23:42