Scientists tracking endangered fish using satellitesBy Yang Yuan-ting and Hollie Younger / Staff reporter, with staff writerResearchers used satellites to track five critically endangered Taiwanese wedgefish, identifying the waters off the west coast and Penghu County as key habitats essential to the species’ survival, the Fisheries Research Institute said yesterday. A Taiwanese wedgefish is pictured in an undated photograph. The Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora included all species of wedgefish in its list of trade controls in 2019. It has since been working with fishermen in Yunlin and Penghu counties to carry out tagging and release operations, it said. Last year, the institute attached satellite tags to five Taiwanese wedgefish to track their movements and swimming depths over the span of one year, it said.

Source: Taipei Times February 09, 2026 16:09 UTC