A tool to facilitate implantation of electrodes for electromyographic telemetry experiments

Conventional techniques for implanting electrodes into axial swimming muscu lature of fish are reviewed. A new device is described that reduces time fo r electrode implantation, ensures constancy in electrode orientation, impla ntation depth, and separation distance. This device is inexpensive, simple to build, and easy to use. (C) 1999 The Fisheries Society of the British Is les.