ADF&G Hopes Website Will Clear Up Common Misconceptions of Tracking Salmon with Sonar (Fish Radio)
SEAFOODNEWS.COM [Fish Radio with Laine Welch] April 24, 2015
This is Fish Radio. I’m Laine Welch – Take a tour of Alaska’s 15 sonar sites on 13 rivers. More after this
Most people don’t know that Alaska fishery managers operate 15 sonar sites on 13 rivers from Southeast to the Yukon – or that Alaska pioneered the use of sonars to track salmon.
“We write these wonderful reports and we communicate with other scientists but if your user groups don’t know what you’re doing, really what good is it.”
Debby Burwen is a research biologist with Fish and Game’s sport fish division. For more than 40 years managers have used sonar as a tool to track salmon run strength in silty rivers where the salmon can’t be seen. But sometimes conditions are so harsh, the equipment can’t operate properly, such as on the Yukon...
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