Aging Fish
[caption id="attachment_346" align="alignright" width="300"] A scale from a 5 year old landlocked salmon.
Nets of the Trade
[caption id="attachment_351" align="alignleft" width="300"] A trap net set for salmon and trout.
Big Reed and Wadleigh Reclamation Updates
[caption id="attachment_245" align="alignright" width="240"] In the spring of 2010, fisheries biologists used trap nets to help determine the severity of the situation at Wadleigh Pond.
Why Do You Separate Eggs In The Hatchery?
[caption id="attachment_63" align="alignright" width="150"] Wonka's Egg-Dicator[/caption] Willie Wonka, you may remember, possessed an Egg-dicator at his chocolate factory.
How Do IFW Hatcheries Help Salmon Spawn?
It’s probably not the image you have in your head when you think of salmon spawning, for it is not the majestic leap from pool to pool as a salmon migrates upriver to spawn. [caption id="attachment_44" align="alignright" width="240"]
Brown Trout Get Radio Tags
Once a nationally renowned brown trout fishery, the tailwaters around Shawmut Hydroelectric Project, referred to as Shawmut, have hastily [caption id="attachment_218" align="alignright" width="240"] One of the tagged brown trout post surgery.
Aerial Angling Surveys
To effectively manage a body of water for a specific species or type of species, fisheries biologists employ multiple survey and study methods to observe the dynamics of that population or species. They use multiple netting techniques during different seasons and target certain species with each study attempt. However, one of the preferred methods of collecting information about a specific fishery is to ask the people with the most recreation time invested using that fishery, the anglers. In my post Spring Fishing Census, I explained about creel surveys, what they are and why we do them.
C&R Not For All Waters
[caption id="attachment_382" align="alignleft" width="225"] Biologist Jim Pellerin shows a lake trout caught while studying a southern Maine pond.[/caption] For years conservationists everywhere have been preaching conservative angling practices, such as catch and release, in
Spring Fishing Census
[caption id="attachment_379" align="aligncenter" width="300"] Greg Massey and Bob Giguire proudly show one of their spring salmon.[/caption] As the lakes and ponds throughout the state are thawing after a long winter, anglers are itching to get out on the open water.
Winter Fishing Tips
Most anglers are aware that in the summer when the waters are warming and the lakes and ponds are stratifying, different species of fish will occupy different depths and/or areas of the lake depending upon what they require for oxygen levels and habitat. Many of the salmonids like salmon and lake trout require lots of oxygen, which is carried by colder water, so these species can be found at greater depths. Warmwater fish such as bass require far less oxygen and may be found in the shallows.
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