Each month Squaxin NR staff takes samples of coho from the net pens to monitor growth progress and fish pathology.   We select pens that are representative of the stocks we have and then seine a random sample of these pens.

George Krise seining coho smolt samples

George Krise dip netting a sample

Will Henderson and Joe Peters take fork length measurements.

Coho Smolt

Net Pen lethal samples of Skookumchuck fish to be sent off to NWIFC Pathology Lab

All photos above taken by Sarah Zaniewski

The sample is weighed and one hundred of them are measured.   Eight fish are taken from this sample as lethal samples to be looked at by Northwest Indian Fish Commission Fish Pathologists.