Monday 26th, April
Today was awesome, I worked with the fish biologists compiling data from almost all the fish traps they have running up in Zigzag. We had to load the equipment to a truck and then we went to each trap. We most of the time was driving because they were in 4 different rivers which are: Salmon River, Still creek, Zigzag river and Clear Fork Sandy river. I had again to wear waders in order to get on the traps and with a hand net catch the Juveniles and Smolts stealhead and Cojo fish. We have to get the these fish from the trap and get them in buckets so that we could measure them. After we had a bucket with a small amount of water with a liquid that put the fish sleepy so it is easy to handle them and get the data. We were measuring their length, weight and if they were smolt we mark them.
I got the chance to use the data logger which is an electronic device where you can insert you data in excel sheets. After we got the data we have to release the fish as soon as we can up stream. We also did some maintenance in one of that traps that are not running right now but It will eventually. At the end of the day we went to the offices and we downloaded the data from the logger to the computer. I really enjoyed what I did today because finally I got the chance to be involved with interesting projects. What the Forest Service wants is to calculate or estimate the population of Steelhead and Cojo fish that are heading to the ocean.
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Lunes 26 de abril
Hoy ha sido impresionante, he trabajado con los biólogos de peces que recopilan datos de trampas para peces que ellos tienen en Zigzag. Tuvimos que cargar el equipo en un camión y luego fuimos a cada trampa. La mayoría del tiempo estuvimos conduciendo porque eran 4 diferentes ríos que son: Rio Salmón, Still Creek, Zigzag y Fork clear Sandy . Tenia que usar botas para poder estar en el agua y subirme a las trampas y con una red de mano capturar los peces Juveniles stealhead smolts y peces Cojo. Teniamos que poner los peces de la trampa a unos cubetas para que pudiéramos medirlos. Después tuvimos los peces en una cubeta con una pequeña cantidad de agua y con un líquido que pone el pez cansado para que sea fácil para agarrarlos y obtener los datos. Estábamos midiendo su longitud, peso y si eran peces algo grandes de salmón se marcaban.
Tuve la oportunidad d e utilizar el registrador de datos que es un dispositivo electrónico donde se puede insertar datos en hojas de cálculo.