The Department of Fisheries and Oceans (DFO) wrapped up its summer program in Rankin Inlet during the last week of August, contributing to DFO's ongoing acoustic telemetry fish-tracking project along western Hudson Bay.

Aquatic science biologist Connor Faulkner, of Rankin Inlet, was employed in his hometown for the summer with DFO as part of the fish-tracking project.

In explaining the project's tagging procedure, which lasts just over three minutes from start to finish, Faulkner said the fish are sedated, length and weight are taken, and a sterile acoustic tag is inserted into the body of the fish.

He said the cavity is then closed using simple stitches and a floy tag is inserted onto the back of the fish.

"The floy tag has contact information listed on it so that local fishers are ab

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