Timeline

Date

Event

• Keith and Pete publish "A coded wire identification system for macro-organisms" in Nature 

• Keith joins Pete in Washington to improve the system

• The first reliable injector, the Mark 0.0 is invented.

• Two year demonstration project begun

• Binary Coded Wire Tag invented

• Color coded wire tags used to research restoration of resident salmon in Puget Sound

• 100,000 Spring Chinook are tagged a Lewis River

• Northwest Marine Technology Incorporated

• MK I invented

• NMT Moves to Shaw Island, WA, USA

• 5 Million Tags and 10 Mark I Injectors produced

• First Mark I injector sold to Canada

• Bolt decision increases need for accurate fish tagging

• NMT opens Olympia office

• Canadian American Fisheries Agreement requires accurate resource measurement and specifies the use of CWT

• NMT acquires the use of Allison Springs Laboratory for biological testing 

• NMT enters into partnership with Tanaka Sanjiro Company to represent NMT's product line in Asia.

• NMT opens its Anacortes office to house the MaTS division.

• First Decimal Coded Wire Tags ^TM Produced

• NMT is awarded an Advanced Technology Grant from the National Institute of Standards and Technology.  Work begins on automated vaccination

• DCWT Illuminator developed

• NIST awards NMT an Advanced Technology Program grant.
• Development begins on vaccination machine

• MaTS division renamed AutoFish

• First AutoFish SCT (Sort, Clip, Tag) trailer ships

• T4 Detector introduced

• Development begins on T13 Detector

• First T13 installed at Spring Creek NFH