Thursday, May 29

Well, this whole week we have just continued netting for juvenile fish in the river and have caught quite a few. We've tagged them, weighed and measured them and taken aging structures.
Yesterday we also caught a little northern pike in a net and today we caught a white sucker. Because we are using 1 inch gill nets we also catch tons of trout perch which are just little fish but are very tricky to get out of the net. Also, today we caught a burbot that had a perfectly round hole on the side of it's body, it was very strange as it was just this big hollow hole, we stilla ren't sure what it was from.
The weather is getting better and it has been a little less windy lately. The past 2 days have been nice and warm outside and today we were wearing t-shirts in the boat instead of 3 layers plus a jacket. Unortuneately, because I was only wearing a t-shirt I got some "sturgeon rash" which is what they call it when a sturgeon rubs up against your bare arm, and because they are so pokey and sand papery it irritates your arm so your arm goes all red.
Some of the geese and foxes in Pinawa have their babies already and i'm sure that the deer around town will have their babies soon too. Also on the topic of animals..whenever we are out pulling nets the seagulls immediately are beside the boat. Today there were not only seagulls but also a flock of terns flew around for a while and 2 pelicans who lost interest pretty quickly.
That's about all the news I have for right now. Here are some pictures.