Fish Surveys in the Manastash

On Friday, WDFW and KCCD staff conducted 2 fish surveys in Manastash Creek.  The sites were Manastash Creek upstream of Barnes Road and Manastash Creek upstream of the MWDA diversion.  It was a beautiful day and there were lots of fish!  At the lower site, there were lots of spring chinook salmon, rainbow trout and sculpin.  At MWDA, there were rainbow trouts (the biggest was about 10" long) and sculpin. Thanks to Jennifer Scott and William Meyer (both with WDFW) for their work!

Jen Scott  identifies and measures all fish collected during the survey at Barnes Road and places them in the cooler before releasing them back in the stream.  The landowner (left) was very interested in what was collected. 

Anna and Brent are ready to net the fish that Jen finds with the electrofisher.  Ryan is in the background with the bucket to collect the netted fish. 

William Meyer (WDFW) worked up the fish found at the MWDA site.  There were only two species found, rainbow trout like this one and sculpins.

AL