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

On June 19th we took a cross section of the stream that fed into the lake.  It was clear water and was surrounded by tundra.  Much of the rocks in the river were an average of 6 on the Wentworth’s scale of substrate (smaller than my fist).  The average depth of this section of the river was 21 cm.  The average velocity of the river’s current was 0.53 m/s.  The total discharge of the river was around 0.897 meters cubed per second.

We caught a total of five different species of fish. Those are: Spatulate sculpin/Icelus spatula(1), Starry Flounder/Platichthys stellatus(5), Chum Salmon/Onchorynchus keta(5), Pink Salmon/Onchorynchus Gorbuscha(2), Dolly Varden/Salvelinus malma(16). The average length for the fishes were 100cm, 169cm, 141cm, 36cm, and 104cm. The averages for the depth, velocity, and the total discharge were:24.5cm, .57m/s, and 1.79373 uS.

In the Ellikarmiut Kuigat River, we went fishing and caught five different species of fish. The species were, (Icelus spatula)-Spatulate Sculpin, (Platichthys stellatus)-Starry Flounder, (Onchorynchus keta)-Chum Salmon, (Onchorynchus gorbuscha)-Pink Salmon, and (Salvelinus malma)-Dolly Varden. The average length for each species were; 100mm for the Sculpin, 169mm for the Starry Flounder, 41mm for the Chum, 36 for Pink, and 104 for the Dolly Varden. Also, the river habitat we observed were depth, the velocity for the river flow and the discharge. Average depth found was, 24.5cm, average velocity found was, 0.57m/s, and the total disharge in the river was, 1.79373.

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Napoleon Atti
(Colin)

On June 16, we went fish seining on the river by the camp and we caught some fishES. We identified 5 different types of fishes, which included 5 chum salmons (Onchorynchus keta), a dolly varden (Salvelinus malma), a spatulate sculpin (Icelus spatula), 5 starry flounders (Platichthys stellatus), and 2 pink salmons (Onchorynchus gorbuscha). The average sizes of all these different species of fishes were 169 mm (starry flounder), 41 mm (chum salmon), 100 mm (spatulate sculpin), 104 mm (Dolly varden), and 36 mm (pink salmon). For the river habitat characteristics, the average depth of the river was 24.5 cm, the average velocity was 0.57 m/s, and lastly, the total discharge of the water was 1.79373. I enjoyed collecting data with all the other students and I enjoyed catching fish since it was my first time to catch any fishes.

~Pedro Andrew (Tiffany)

First week is FINALLY past and I need to take a shower! I’m sick of being in the wilderness and I’m tired of living in these so-called rooms. I’m already tired of hiking, but there’s probably a few hikes to go. Counting down the days to finally get back to the “world”. I MISS MY PHONE! I love this internet! Anyways, about class.. I learned a lot about FISHY facts . Things I never knew even if I deal with fish at home. I enjoyed that class. I have one more class to take in one of these 13 days I’m here. OH YEAH, I held a live fish! how gross and exciting!!! I went fish trapping for the first time! ha! It’s exciting since I never have gone fishing in my life. I saw a muskox, a reindeer, and a fox ! This place is a Beauti*. (All but the outhouses). However, I’M HAVING FUN AND I’M TRYING TO MAKE THE BEST OUT OF THIS TRIP! Trying my best to leave out the word “DEPRESSED”. Until next time, bye for now! TOODLES!

~Tiffany Andrew

Hmm…My trip here to Nunivak Island (Nash Harbor) was quite interesting. It’s been fun here discovering and learning new things while doing the hands-on activities. Although things have been pretty different, learning in a camp when you can hear the shower of the rain as if it were hailing, we have come over that problem and continued to learn. I would encourage all of you students who have been asked to apply and have been accepted. This trip has been a blast and am sure that it will continue to surprise me.

Congratulations to Brent Beans graduating with his Information Technology Specialist ITS degree.

Brent Beans

Brent made such a good showing and impression during his CIOS 282 work experience class that he has been hired as a full-time technician with the Lower Kuskokwim School District (LKSD). The head of technology at the LKSD and Brent’s supervisor commented in his last evaluation “If they are all like Brent, LKSD will always be interested”. Brent has represented the KuC very well in the Bethel IT community…congrats and good luck!

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Best of luck for the summer to three of our KuC ANSEP retention students; Jessica, Derek and Alex.
All three of our students have summer Biology internships and will be working their first paid field season with Science agencies in the YK Delta. Jessica and Derek are off to work with the US Fish and Wildlife Service. Alex leaves tomorrow to participate in an Ocean research project on the Gulf of Alaska and planning to be back to the Kuskokwim as a fisheries intern for the summer. We hope you all make lots of money and have a wonderful experience….be safe, learn lots, have fun.

Jessica Lewis

Derek Evon

Alex Nicori

Hi,

My name is Spruce Lynch and I am the Director of the Writing Center at KuC. Stop on by and introduce yourself. I would love to meet you.

Spruce

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