Safeguarding our natural resources.
Monitoring the movement and population of our wildlife is a growing concern for both commercial research and governmental organizations, and Digital Angel’s Destron Fearing subsidiary is leading the development of new technologies and products for this industry.
Currently, Destron Fearing sells passive integrated transponders (PIT) tags to salmon fisheries in the northwestern Columbia River basin at a rate of 3-4 million annually. In addition, the company has signed a significant multi-year contract extension with the Bonneville Power Administration after successfully installing the world’s largest RFID reader system to track indigenous salmon populations. As a federal agency under the U.S. Department of Energy, this track record of success has helped Destron Fearing to open the door to other governmental and private research contracts.
A case in point, in early 2007, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers awarded Destron Fearing a multi-year contract worth up to $10 million for their PIT tag technology used in conjunction with radio frequency identification (RFID) antenna to monitor fish movement via numerous stream and dam passages.
As the need to track and monitor a variety of fish and wildlife continues to evolve on a global basis, the need for cutting-edge, customized identification solutions will only expand.
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