Scribd Logo
Upload

Welcome to Scribd!

    • 8 views

    Fisheries Techniques

    Uploaded by

    Eta ZIAL

    Copyright:

    © All Rights Reserved
    Download as PDF, TXT or read online from Scribd

    Fisheries Techniques

    Uploaded by

    Eta ZIAL
    8 views20 pages

    Copyright

    © © All Rights Reserved

    Available Formats

    PDF, TXT or read online from Scribd

    Did you find this document useful?

    Is this content inappropriate?

    Copyright:

    © All Rights Reserved
    Download as PDF, TXT or read online from Scribd
    Download as pdf or txt
    8 views20 pages

    Fisheries Techniques

    Uploaded by

    Eta ZIAL

    Copyright:

    © All Rights Reserved
    Download as PDF, TXT or read online from Scribd
    Download as pdf or txt
    of 20

    Fisheries Techniques

    Zoo 511
    Today’s outline
    • Announcements:
    – Final Exam next week!
    • Format will be one section with timed stations, and
    one section with a total time limit for multiple
    questions.
    – Final Draft of paper due noon May 14th in
    Alex’s mailbox at the CFL
    • Lecture: Techniques (this is fair game for
    exam!)
    • Jeopardy!
    Two main types of methods:

    ACTIVE

    PASSIVE
    Passive Gear
    Entanglement – gill nets
    Considerations: habitat, depth, mesh
    size, mortality

    Standard

    Nordi-mesh
    Passive Gear
    Entanglement -Longlining

    Considerations: Habitat, by-catch, hook size,


    type of bait, set time, predation, finding the
    gear

    Freshwater Equivalent= Pelagic

    Bottom
    Passive Gear Considerations: location,
    mesh size, funnel diameter

    Entrapment- trap nets, know the parts!

    Wings

    Pot or Car

    Funnel Wings
    Lead
    Trap nets, Lots of variety

    Fyke Net Pound Net

    River Trap Net

    PA style trap Net

    Hoop Net - river


    Passive Gear – Fish Weirs
    Block entire stream, catch everything going up or down

    Considerations: location, high level of effort, non-target effects


    Passive Gear
    Minnow trap – can mean anything

    Considerations: location, mesh size, funnel


    diameter, trap fullness = more or less caught,
    predation

    Gee style

    B style
    square

    Glass style Plastic style


    Passive Gear
    Angling – sort of a weird mix between active/passive
    Considerations: time and place, what lure, certain types of fish more
    vulnerable, behavioral effects
    Active gear – Trawling
    Considerations: depth,
    bycatch, habitat destruction

    Tickler
    chains

    Rockhopper
    Active gear
    Drag/Tow – larval fish sampling – Bongo nets, Miller sampler

    Considerations: depth,
    size of larvae, other stuff
    in water Standing Wave

    Reduced Opening
    Active gear - Seine
    Purse seine and beach seine

    Considerations: how to
    find fish, preventing
    escape, bycatch
    Active gear - Electrofishing
    Stream
    electrofishing-
    backpack, tow
    boat, bank based,
    electric seine
    Considerations: safety –
    fish and researchers, not
    effective in all habitats
    Active gear -
    Boat Electrofishing

    Considerations: depth,
    safety again
    Active gear -
    Toxicants – rotenone, lampricides
    Considerations: Selectivity, ease of
    application, health concerns
    Active gear -
    Direct observations (underwater,
    camera, or viewing windows
    Considerations: behavioral changes due
    to your presence, water clarity, can’t
    measure some things
    Active gear - hydroacoustics
    Considerations: expensive, how to
    determine species composition, difficult
    to sample fish near the bottom
    Gear Bias
    • Why certain species, sizes, or habitats are
    caught more or less often than their
    frequency in the population.
    • Every gear has bias!
    A B C D
    5 6 5 7

    25 A
    25 B A B C D
    25 C 20 4 1 15
    25 D
    Gear Bias
    • Gear can also be biased for size
    • You sample and catch only one size of fish:
    2 possible reasons.
    – The population is all one size
    – Your gear is biased towards one size
    • Goal is to get least biased sample possible
    • USE MULTIPLE GEARS!

    You might also like