In the March 2011 issue of Salmon Trout Steelheader Magazine, I did a photo essay of the spring-run Chinook tagging project I was involved with last year (and again coming up this year as well). The basic gist of the whole deal was: Capture kings, quickly outfit them with acoustic tags and then let ’em go. At that point, biologists could track the fish as they moved upstream, providing them with lots of good data about the migration habits of the fish. We also captured and tagged fall-run fish last year as well. Here’s a little look into the project…
Kreb says
That acronym keeps getting longer and longer.
Jeremiah says
Wow…what an awesome job! That’s great to see the transformation of that king #14 from a chromer to a smoker after three months in fresh water. You might be the first to publish pictures documenting that transformation…pretty cool, thanks!
TRAVIS M says
Need any volunteers to help in any way? Not kidding. Would love to help our salmon, belong to Trinity River Guide Assoc. and would like to learn all I can about California salmon and what is happening to them. Could we start a study up here? I fish for springers alot in the B.R.F area. Run into the Mad river boys down there, good times.
JD says
Hey Travis, thanks! As you can imagine, a long list of folks have offered to help out but the DFG permits only allow for me and biologists from PSSFMC to be onboard during the survey. I’l keep ya posted if anything comes up on the Trinity. Thanks again!