we can't wait to see it and share it for #worldfishmigrationday

Me: "Had to walk 5 miles to the spot, what a slog" Mark Hieronymus: *Laughs in Biologist*

Alaska is the last bastion and I hope TU will continue to protect our Salmonids

Hey Mark , I see U Love The Work & The Fish w Their Habitat Intact ,,, Pls Find ‘The Right People In Institutions ( Alaskan ) that Will Do Anything Under Our Laws ( & New Laws ) To Protect & Honor These Magical Places ,,, Thank U for Letting Sportsman Know From All Over 🦅🇺🇸🐟✨

Thank you, Mark. A hydrologist and I discovered a steelhead one day on the north end of Baranof Island while doing stream surveys in 1983. He was walking across the crrek downstream of me, and I thought he had a mink in his hip boots, dancing around... I was heading across, and this large fish rocketed upstream between my legs to the right angle bend cliff, flipped around and hit my legs as it rocketed back down. We were quite a ways from the known steelhead water of Sitkoh Lake and Creek. I'd been out steelhead fishing on Idaho's Clearwater River before working as a fish biologist out of Sitka, so I knew what it was. Interesting wildlife experiences... He said he saw a large dark area, figure it for a large stable rock so he stepped on it. Since I'm taking up guitar, I've learned that a number of instrument manufacturers (Breedlove and Taylor Guitars for certain, and others) with a concert and interest in conserving and sustaining the supply of tone woods (including Sitka spruce) met with the USFS on that subject, but the agency wasn't interested. "Small potatoes," I suppose...

Cheer~~~(of a fish such as the salmon) migrating up rivers from the sea to spawn.

If you guys want some info on steelhead streams on islands near craig ak leave a comment. I have worked and fished there for 3 years and for steelhead on a few unknown producing streams

Thanks Mark for bringing light to these overlooked steelhead runs and to TU for the support and backing of these surveys. Question - would it be more effective and possibly definitive to sample these streams using environmental DNA?

@mhieronymus4929

3 жыл бұрын

While eDNA is an amazing tool for fisheries research, it has limitations which make it a poor fit for the steelhead surveys of the Fish Habitat Project, the biggest of which is the inability to determine anadromy. If a particular stream sample gets a "hit" on a rainbow trout marker with eDNA, the stream would still have to be revisited to ground-truth the results to determine a) if the rainbows in that stream have an anadromous life history expression, and b) what habitat they are using.

@pmichaelcarl

3 жыл бұрын

@@mhieronymus4929 Mark - appreciate you taking the time to answer my question. I'm curious how and why coastal rainbow trout "decide" to go to the salt. Their life history is pretty complex. I've heard that steelhead runs can be restarted from rainbow trout populations native to a coastal stream, but don't have references, etc. Regardless, thought I would share a FWS project to catalog bull trout habitat throughout the US using eDNA... www.fs.fed.us/rm/boise/AWAE/projects/BullTrout_eDNA.html

i volunteer to walk all of the undocumented streams

There’s nothing impressive or environmentally friendly about catching steelhead under a bobber 🤷‍♂️

@Justwatchingvideos2day

3 жыл бұрын

Ok boomer.

@boblove6865

2 жыл бұрын

Right but a beed under a thingamabobber is probobally okay. Smdh this is the reason fly guys are consistently outfished.

@hooks4nooks

Жыл бұрын

Really? So what's the impressive and environmentally friendly way of catching steelhead?