Tuesday, June 28, 2016
Something shockingly fishy is happening at creek camp
After seeing what was
up…stream today we, along with the Tim and Freeman from the Pa. fish and boat commission, went fish shocking. Fish shocking is when one uses an electrified
probe to send an electrical pulse through the water momentarily stunning the
fish making them float to the surface where they can be easily scooped up by
us. Why do we do this you might ask? We do
this to survey the different types of fish in the body of water in order to
know the health of the water and to see if they’re holding fish that can be
sport fished, such as the stocked rainbow trout and small mouth bass. The
creek, Woodcock creek, birthed magnificent results containing both of these
fish and many other fish that are pollution intolerant that indicate a healthy creek. We thank the fish and boat commission for
coming out and helping us with this.
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It is wonderful to hear that the creek is pollutant free and can sustain the native fish. This learning activity has been a fantastic hands-on experience showing the natural animal and plant habitats. What was the most interesting aspect of the activity?
Great news about the health of the creek. Just curious, what other fish species did you see?
@ErinRizzer It was a very interesting experience, and I feel like the most interesting aspect of the activity was when we were counting the fish I got to see all the different fish we had caught.
@MeganMurphy Off the top of my head some other species we found were the log perch, the black nose dase, the creek and river chub, the rainbow darter and other darters. There were some more but I can not remember any others,
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