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  "version": "1.0.0",
  "checked": "2026-10-21",
  "scope": "Focused secondary review of three primary papers; not an original Louisiana experiment or systematic review.",
  "sources": [
    {
      "id": "stallings",
      "url": "https://www.marine.usf.edu/fishecology/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/stallings-et-al-2023-fr-post-release-survival-of-red-snapper-and-red-grouper-using-different-barotrauma-mitigation-methods.pdf",
      "citation": "Stallings, Ayala, Cross & Sauls (2023). Fisheries Research 264:106717. DOI 10.1016/j.fishres.2023.106717.",
      "locator": "Table 1 p.4; Results p.5; Discussion pp.6-7"
    },
    {
      "id": "curtis",
      "url": "https://sedarweb.org/documents/sedar-74-rd96-quantifying-delayed-mortality-from-barotrauma-impairment-in-discarded-red-snapper-using-acoustic-telemetry/",
      "citation": "Curtis, Johnson, Diamond & Stunz (2015). Marine and Coastal Fisheries 7:434-449. DOI 10.1080/19425120.2015.1074968.",
      "locator": "Table 1 p.440; methods pp.436-439; Table 2 p.445"
    },
    {
      "id": "runde",
      "url": "https://repository.library.noaa.gov/view/noaa/47689/noaa_47689_DS1.pdf",
      "citation": "Runde et al. (2021). Marine and Coastal Fisheries 13:478-495. DOI 10.1002/mcf2.10175.",
      "locator": "Methods pp.480-483; Results pp.484-486; Table 3 pp.487-488; Figure 9"
    }
  ],
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    {
      "method": "Vented at surface",
      "depth_m": 0,
      "reported_n": 344,
      "reported_return_percent": 6.4
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    {
      "method": "Descended 10 m",
      "depth_m": 10,
      "reported_n": 262,
      "reported_return_percent": 6.9
    },
    {
      "method": "Descended 20 m",
      "depth_m": 20,
      "reported_n": 202,
      "reported_return_percent": 16.5
    },
    {
      "method": "Descended 30 m",
      "depth_m": 30,
      "reported_n": 175,
      "reported_return_percent": 15.5
    }
  ],
  "stallings_comparisons": [
    {
      "depth_m": 10,
      "reported_odds_ratio": 1.08,
      "ci_low": 0.53,
      "ci_high": 2.16,
      "p": 0.87
    },
    {
      "depth_m": 20,
      "reported_odds_ratio": 2.88,
      "ci_low": 1.56,
      "ci_high": 5.41,
      "p": 0.0004
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    {
      "depth_m": 30,
      "reported_odds_ratio": 2.68,
      "ci_low": 1.42,
      "ci_high": 5.12,
      "p": 0.001
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  ],
  "stallings_note": "Reported n from Table 1 and rounded rates from p.5 retained separately. A 16.5% rate with n=202 and a 15.5% rate with n=175 do not reconcile to integer counts at the displayed precision. We do not reconstruct returns, refit tests or silently correct the paper. Unreturned tags are not observed deaths.",
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      "depth_m": 50,
      "method": "Control",
      "tagged": 4,
      "unknown": 1,
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      "survivors": 3,
      "known_fate_survival_percent": 100,
      "all_tagged_lower_percent": 75,
      "all_tagged_upper_percent": 100
    },
    {
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      "method": "Descend",
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      "known_fate_survival_percent": 66.666667,
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      "method": "Nonvent",
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      "surface_deaths": 2,
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      "known_fate_survival_percent": 77.777778,
      "all_tagged_lower_percent": 70,
      "all_tagged_upper_percent": 80
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    {
      "season": "Summer",
      "depth_m": 50,
      "method": "Control",
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      "n": 3,
      "surface_deaths": 0,
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      "method": "Descend",
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      "all_tagged_upper_percent": 88.888889
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      "unknown": 1,
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      "delayed_deaths": 2,
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      "all_tagged_upper_percent": 25
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      "season": "Summer",
      "depth_m": 50,
      "method": "Vent",
      "tagged": 5,
      "unknown": 1,
      "n": 4,
      "surface_deaths": 1,
      "delayed_deaths": 0,
      "survivors": 3,
      "known_fate_survival_percent": 75,
      "all_tagged_lower_percent": 60,
      "all_tagged_upper_percent": 80
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      "season": "Spring",
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      "method": "Control",
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      "unknown": 4,
      "n": 2,
      "surface_deaths": 0,
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      "known_fate_survival_percent": 100,
      "all_tagged_lower_percent": 33.333333,
      "all_tagged_upper_percent": 100
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    {
      "season": "Spring",
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      "method": "Descend",
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      "all_tagged_upper_percent": 75
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      "all_tagged_lower_percent": 37.5,
      "all_tagged_upper_percent": 75
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      "season": "Spring",
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      "method": "Control",
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      "unknown": 3,
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      "survivors": 3,
      "known_fate_survival_percent": 100,
      "all_tagged_lower_percent": 50,
      "all_tagged_upper_percent": 100
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    {
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      "all_tagged_upper_percent": 80
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    {
      "season": "Spring",
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      "method": "Vent",
      "tagged": 9,
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    "capture_depth_m": 37,
    "device_setting_m": 31,
    "live_tagged": 44,
    "included_km": 36,
    "reported_mortality": 0.08,
    "ci_low": 0,
    "ci_high": 0.17,
    "simulation_median_mortality": 0.13,
    "simulation_low": 0.1,
    "simulation_high": 0.17,
    "simulation_interval": "2.5th-97.5th percentiles; not empirical cohort CI",
    "scope": "Successfully descended once, no deep hooking; Kaplan-Meier estimate with censoring. Separate fishery simulation assumes all releases descended and no device failures; South Atlantic, not Louisiana."
  },
  "stallings_descriptive": [
    {
      "depth_m": 10,
      "difference_percentage_points": 0.5,
      "ratio_of_rounded_rates": 1.078125
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      "depth_m": 20,
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      "depth_m": 30,
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