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| Pulling the sein net in |
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| Our first catch! |
Last Friday we went back to Ponce Inlet, not to measure the dune height but to sein fish the waters. We ended up pilling three seins. Chad from the marine science center was out there to help us, he taught us how to cast the sein net out in the water so the fish could not escape. Once we had the sein net fully out in the water and it had creating a U shape to the shore lien, it was time to pull the net in. The trick with pulling in a sein net is you pull the bottom part of the net in, the side with the weights, so it drags against the bottom so no fish can get out while you are pulling it in. We ended up catching over 200 fish in our first sein net, the other pulls did not yield as high as a result, could be do to location, time the net spent in the water, or the area covers. In our first catch we caught a wide range of different species of fish, from mullets to a checkered puffer. The checkered puffer fish is not normally found in the area we found it in, it was a great find! Once we were all said and done fishing, as a group we calculate the catch per unit effort, and we also did the sally wiener scale. There are more pictures on our Facebook page for you to check out.
https://www.facebook.com/DaytonaStateIMES
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| Checkered puffer |
Cathy--very nice post. I would like to ask you a question about your independent project...what is already known about copper pollution problems in Florida? Are there any data showing locations where copper concentrations exceed natural/accepted levels? If so--where and what are they and what are their sources?
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