Inter-rater reliability of categorical versus continuous scoring of fish vitality: Does it affect the utility of the reflex action mortality predictor (RAMP) approach?

• Pieter Meeremans ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Pieter Meeremans, Sven Sebastian Uhlmann

  Current address: Ministry of Agriculture, Animal Husbandry and Fisheries, Paramaribo, Suriname

  Affiliations Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB), Brussels, Belgium, Flanders Research Institute for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, Animal Sciences Unit, Ostend, Belgium

  ⨯
• Noëlle Yochum,

  Current address: NOAA Alaska Fisheries Science Center, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

  Affiliation Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon, United States of America

  ⨯
• Marc Kochzius,

  Affiliation Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB), Brussels, Belgium

  ⨯
• Bart Ampe,

  Affiliation Flanders Research Institute for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, Animal Sciences Unit, Ostend, Belgium

  ⨯
• Frank A. M. Tuyttens,

  Affiliations Flanders Research Institute for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, Animal Sciences Unit, Ostend, Belgium, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Ghent University, Merelbeke, Belgium

  ⨯
• Sven Sebastian Uhlmann

  Contributed equally to this work with: Pieter Meeremans, Sven Sebastian Uhlmann

  * E-mail: sven.uhlmann@gmx.net

  Affiliation Flanders Research Institute for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, Animal Sciences Unit, Ostend, Belgium

  http://orcid.org/0000-0003-2830-5845

  ⨯