Quick Start Electrofishing Guide Created
Thursday, December 08, 2011
Smith-Root has always considered the safety of our customers (as well as the fish) as our greatest priority, ensuring their well-being is a key differentiator between Smith-Root and many of its competitors. In line with this ethos, Lisa Harlan of Smith-Root’s Science Department recently collaborated with Jim Reynolds on a Quick-Start Guide to Electrofishing.
The purpose of this much needed document is to provide all who use electrofishing as a sampling tool a short, easy to understand start-up guide that applies to all electrofishing systems regardless of type or manufacturer. Especially applicable to novice users, this guide outlines safe protocols to get field personnel catching fish with minimal stress and injury. Please feel free to download this guide from our website anytime, we will keep this guide available under our support tab indefinitely.
While we are very proud of the work Jim and Lisa did in creating this quick-start guide, we realize its limitations and strongly encourage participating in electrofishing training. Smith-Root offers backpack electrofishing courses from our headquarters in Vancouver, WA throughout the year and will do onsite courses for those who request it. For more information regarding Smith-Root electrofishing training please visit: www.smith-root.com/services/training/.
In addition to Smith-Root, the EOS Alliance offers both backpack and boat electrofishing training from its NW Environmental Training Center (Seattle, WA) and the USFWS offers backpack training from the National Conservation Training Center (Shepherdstown, WV).
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About Smith-Root
Founded in 1964, Smith-Root has long been a respected member of the aquatic resource conservation community. We have supplied fish researchers, managers and hatchery personnel with quality fisheries sampling technologies and products over several decades. With on-site manufacturing facilities, Smith-Root produces a full-line of electrofishing, fish guidance, and electroanesthesia equipment to aid in fish restoration and recovery operations in various aquatic settings.
Posted by John Gielen at 2:30 PM December 8, 2011 in Biology Blog