Title: A Live-Bucket for Use in Surveys of Small Streams
Abstract: Conventional equipment and methods used to hold fish during surveys of small streams are either cumbersome or cause injury and kill fish. We designed a live-bucket that is spillproof, inexpensive (US$20), easily assembled, keeps fish in good condition, and does not restrict a person's movements. The livebucket was used during electrofishing surveys on 120 stream reaches ranging in water surface slope from 090 to 890 and with water temperatures as high as I8°C. Observed mortality while fish were held was less than 190 for cutthroat trout Oncorhynchus clarki, mountain whitefish Prosopium williamsoni, brook trout Salvelinus fontinalis, and brown trout Salmo trutta longer than 80 mm total length.
Publication Year: 1997
Publication Date: 1997-11-01
Language: en
Type: article
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