Hello folks,
It's that time of year again, spring is upon us and we need to move fish to the Pigeon River. We are planning to work April 6-8. Barring any bad weather or high water we will meet at the back of the McDonalds parking lot off of Hwy 25 in Biltmore (across from the Biltmore Estate entrance) April 6, at 9 am. We will attempt to collect Gilt darters, Banded darters, and TN shiners from the Swannanoa River. The following day, we will move down the French Broad near Hot Springs, if the river is workable we'll try to collect Highland shiners; if not we'll try Spring Creek and/or Ivy River for more targeted fishes. The third day we'll plan to collect Mirror shiners upstream of Canton at the park.
As in the past, the majority of work is involved with collecting, tagging, and counting the fish at the source site. You don't necessarily have to come and get in the water, there is plenty of work to do on the bank. Following collections we will release the fish the same day in the Pigeon River at various sites downstream of Clyde, NC.
If anyone has any questions please feel free to contact me. Also, please forward this email onto anyone interested in helping. If weather changes plans I will be in touch; we will move the translocations down in the week or possibly the following week, April 14-16.
Thanks
TR
William T. Russ II
Western Aquatic Wildlife Diversity Biologist
NC Wildlife Resources Commission
645 Fish Hatchery Road
Marion, NC 28752
Office: (828) 659-3324 x228
Cell: (828) 777-0495
Email: thomas.russ@ncwildlife.org
www.ncwildlife.org
Letting anybody else know that wants to help
Edited by Gambusia, 22 March 2010 - 08:17 PM.