Once again I want to give you an update on the sampling activities of our Game & Parks Commission fisheries biologists and give you an idea of some of the fish they are seeing out there! You know my usual disclaimer, when fisheries biologists are sampling fish we do NOT necessarily go out and just try to collect the biggest fish. Anglers as a group will see more big fish, and often the biggest fish because anglers target big fish. …
Read More »What Lurks Beneath, May 2017
I like to post a lot of fish pictures on my blog–I cannot get enough of big fish pictures and I have learned there are a lot of other folks that think the same way. One other purpose in doing that is to again let folks know that our Nebraska fisheries workers are always busy, always doing something, and our fisheries biologists spend a lot of time in the field handling a lot of fish. No, we do not necessarily …
Read More »An Assist
A couple weeks ago I noted that fall is a busy time for our fisheries division field biologists (Standard Surveys). I believe by now most of that field work has been finished, and now there will be some processing of samples and data followed by some report-writing in the coming winter months. Last week I got an e-mail from Dr. Kevin Pope at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln reminding me that some of the students there got their hands fishy while …
Read More »Standard Surveys
Every season there is something going on if you are a fisheries biologist. I would not say that there is any “down time”. However, I would say that spring and then fall it is particularly busy. Right now, Nebraska’s fisheries biologists are on the water sampling fish populations on a variety of waters across the state. Nebraska’s fisheries biologists conduct what we call “standard surveys”. Those are fish population surveys that are carried out according to standardized, scientific methods in …
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