RFID fish tag for environmental tracking

DIGIFISH™ TAG

RFID fish tracking for automated fish colony monitoring

November 3 – 7 | Booth 1014 | AALAS

Digifish™ Tag

A new, innovative application of our RFID technology. The world’s smallest RFID tag can now be deployed to streamline your laboratory and non-laboratory fish programs, improving the efficiency of data collection.

  • Introduction
  • Features

Digifish deploys the same RFID technology that has transformed laboratory mouse identification methodologies, namely Digitail.

Glass transponders and other RFID fish tags have a form factor that is often incompatible with the smallest size classes of many commonly studied fish, as well as the physiology of many delicate species. Other conventional marking methods for these fish fail to offer unique individual identification.

To address the problems related to identification of fish during preclinical and environmental research, Somark began the independent testing of the suitability of our tag for RFID fish tracking.

Digifish is the world’s smallest RFID tag, specifically designed to prioritize animal welfare.It is 16 times smaller than the typical glass transponder found for RFID tracking in fisheries research settings, and far less invasive than common fish tagging routes.

The tag is 6mm long, 0.5mm wide and only 0.25mm high. The impressive 0.75mm volume is what makes our tag remarkably suitable for the RFID fish tracking of species such as zebrafish. The monitoring of juvenile life stages of many fish species has proved difficult previously with no reliable options for RFID fish tagging with unique identifiers.

The tag has a permanent 24-character ID which can be read by a UHF reader. The injector needles are provided pre-loaded which ensures that the process of applying Digifish to your school/shole is quick, reliable and can be conducted by even novice technicians and researchers.

Digifish deploys the same RFID technology that has transformed laboratory mouse identification methodologies, namely Digitail.

Glass transponders and other RFID fish tags have a form factor that is often incompatible with the smallest size classes of many commonly studied fish, as well as the physiology of many delicate species. Other conventional marking methods for these fish fail to offer unique individual identification.

To address the problems related to identification of fish during preclinical and environmental research, Somark began the independent testing of the suitability of our tag for RFID fish tracking.

Digifish is the world’s smallest RFID tag, specifically designed to prioritize animal welfare.It is 16 times smaller than the typical glass transponder found for RFID tracking in fisheries research settings, and far less invasive than common fish tagging routes.

The tag is 6mm long, 0.5mm wide and only 0.25mm high. The impressive 0.75mm volume is what makes our tag remarkably suitable for the RFID fish tracking of species such as zebrafish. The monitoring of juvenile life stages of many fish species has proved difficult previously with no reliable options for RFID fish tagging with unique identifiers.

The tag has a permanent 24-character ID which can be read by a UHF reader. The injector needles are provided pre-loaded which ensures that the process of applying Digifish to your school/shole is quick, reliable and can be conducted by even novice technicians and researchers.

Benefits with Digifish™ Tag

Secure

Secure

Refined injection

Refined application

compliant RFID fish tagging achieved with Somark

Compliant

Easily injecting

Easily read

Small and powerful

Small and mighty

Affordable

Affordable

RFID fish tagging powered by Digifish
DIGIFISH™

Laboratory fish in Biomedical Research

The Danio rerio has rapidly become one of the worlds most common animal species to be involved in laboratory research. Zebrafish husbandry and care within the preclinical research sector is governed by the same welfare bodies as lab rodents and other animals.

The compliance of our RFID fish tracking solution can streamline internal practices, which often vary from facility to facility. Digifish is an ideal solution for the accurate identification of each research subject ruling out ID related stress whilst enriching the natural behaviours of laboratory fish in biomedical research programs.

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FRyID is a RFID fish tagging solution for fish research
FRyID

Non-laboratory fish in environmental monitoring

Somark has also partnered with Hinchinbrook, a world leader in fish marking and tagging technologies for fisheries research applications, to offer FRyID (powered by Digifish).

Suitable for non-laboratory research programs including population research and monitoring, post-restoration effectiveness monitoring,  environmental toxicity testing and other biological and ecological studies.

Partner Somark’s next-generation RFID fish tags paired with Hinchinbrook’s expertise, together, we’re helping to revolutionize the accuracy and quality of research data in fisheries sciences.

As a Principal Fisheries Scientist, Hinchinbrook’s founding President brings over 25 years of fisheries research experience with a strong emphasis on mark & recapture studies. Hinchinbrook has been a major supplier of conventional and RFID fish tagging solutions since 2019.. Somark’s FRyID, powered by Digifish, is available from Hinchinbrook directly, email enquiries  directly to info@hinchinbrookei.com.

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BACKGROUND

The worlds smallest RFID tag, Digitail™

Digifish™, and closely allied FRyID, are partner products of Digitail™. The RFID fish tracking is conducted using the same radio frequency identification tag and readers. All the Digitail™ accessories are applicable to both products.

We’re also pleased to introduce new ruggedized IPx7+ readers, with further integrated data collection solutions in development and brought to market soon. Keep up to date with our latest news and sign up to our mailing list.

Digitail was the first of its kind; an RFID tag that was designed specifically for use in laboratory rodents. The development of this tag and the research experience of our in-house team ensured that we overcame the common obstacles that traditional glass transponder and other mouse identification methods presented, including:

  • Ferrous content
  • Anaesthesia use
  • Non-permanent IDs
  • Lengthy tag application processes
  • Severe animal welfare concerns
  • Short read distances
DIGITAIL™

Digifish™ Tag

Digifish is a brand-new application of the world’s smallest RFID tag, overcoming the challenges faced in the applications of fish species in research, including limited and often surgically invasive tagging applications and food safety concerns for commercial fisheries applications. Digifish™ brings with it all the benefits of secure, compliant, refined application and accurate, reliable monitoring of fish colonies.

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