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Fish Tagging Project in Effect within Pasqua Lake and the Qu’Appelle River System
For an overview of the project - click here
Fish Tally*
| Species |
Total Captured in Traps |
Total PIT Tagged |
Total Radio Tagged |
| Bigmouth Buffalo |
583 |
478 |
33 |
| Burbot |
263 |
n/a |
n/a |
| Channel Catfish |
11 |
10 |
8 |
| Cisco |
20 |
n/a |
n/a |
| Common Carp |
715 |
n/a |
n/a |
| Lake Whitefish |
5 |
n/a |
n/a |
| Northern Pike |
572 |
129 |
9 |
| Quillback |
171 |
n/a |
n/a |
| Shorthead Redhorse |
29 |
n/a |
n/a |
| Walleye |
1669 |
327 |
0 |
| White Sucker |
1615 |
n/a |
n/a |
| Yellow Perch |
101 |
n/a |
n/a |
| Totals |
5754 |
944 |
50 |
* As of August 18, 2010
Media Day
On July 8th representatives of CTV News, CBC News and Radio, and the Leader Post visited the project site. They were invited to see how fish are captured in trap nets, how PIT tags and radio tags are inserted into the fish, and the other operations involved in this study.
Media representatives riding in the boat to the trap site.
Filming a segment of the news report.
The newest member of our field staff – Jennifer Leslie
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Radio Tag - top; PIT Tag bottom
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Bigmouth buffalo in the anesthetic bath
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Radio tag being inserted
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Jeff holding fish in the recovery bath after surgery. It takes about 5 minutes for the fish to recover.
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Adam holding a radio tagged channel catfish
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The first step - Cory placing the fish into the anesthetic bath to sedate the fish for the surgery
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Weighing a bigmouth buffalo
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Measuring the length
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Inserting the radio transmitter into fish's abdomen
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Jeff and Adam performing the surgery
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Using sutures to close the incision. On the left we were irrigating the gills with water and anesthetic to keep the fish breathing and under sedation.
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A view of the closed incision - they heal very quickly.
Checking Traps and PIT Tagging
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PIT tagging a walleye
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Nice walleye
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Large bigmouth buffalo
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Taking fish out of trap nets
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Getting Started
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Field Staff - Cory Boynton and Jeff Giberson.
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Checking and mending the fish traps.
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Loading the boat with the equipment.
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Setting the fish traps. These live traps are designed to capture fish but not kill them.
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The fish traps remain in place all summer but are checked frequently by field staff. |
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If you have any questions, please contact:
Adam Matichuk
Fisheries Project Coordinator
(306) 692-8812
amatichuk.swf@sasktel.net
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