Estimating Fish Mortality Rates Using Telemetry and Multistate Models

We simulated and evaluated multistate capture–recapture models to estimate mortality rates using telemetry data. Four field designs were considered: (A) fixed receivers to estimate total instantaneous mortality ( Z ), (B) manual searches to estimate instantaneous fishing ( F ) and natural ( M ) mortality, (C) fixed receivers combined with external high‐reward tags to estimate F and M , and (D) manual searches combined with external high‐reward...