Fishes of Nash Harbor

The one week of fisheries we had was very interesting. After a seine pull, setting some traps, and some netting, we caught a variety of fish.
The species we caught were a Spatulate Sculpin, or Icelus spatula, Starry Flounder, or Platichthys stellatus, Chum Salmon, or Onchorynchus keta, and Dolly varden, or Salvelinus malma.
The average size for the Spatulate Sculpin was 100 milimeters, the starry Flounder was 169 mm, the Chum Salmon was 41 mm. and the Dolly varden was 104 mm.
Besides just catching fish, we also logged some data of the habitat around them. We collected the average depth of the river, which was 24.5 cm, the average velocity, which was 0.57 m/s, and the total discharge, which was 0.896865 us per second.
The whole fish class was very interesting. I enjoyed it a lot. It gave me some more knowledge of fish and now has put me on a life-long quest to learn more about fish.
-Mitchell Forbes

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