So, I haven't written on here for a week but I was busy during the week and not around a computer and then I went home for the weekend so I didn't have time to write on here.
I have now got my laptop in Pinawa so will be able to update more often.
I have switched over to a different project, the one that I will be working on for the summer. I come and go for Pinawa every day by boat so there are no more over night trips to slave falls. The project is working with Juvenile sturgeon in the river. We catch them using nets with a much smaller mesh than I got used to with the previous project, as we are now using 1,3, and 5 inch nets and i was used to working with 10 and 12.
We net the fish in the same way as we did with the adult fish but with these nets we often get fish other than sturgeon in the nets. These fish have to be untangled and released back into the river after we record what type of fish it was and it's length. So far we have caught walleye, sauger, trout perch, mariahs/burbots, perch..and I think that's it. Oh, and we also get crayfish in the nets as they sit on the bottom so the crayfish climb onto them.
That is basically what I have been up to this past week, just getting used to the new project and netting plenty of fish.
I will try to update this more often but for now I have to go!
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