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<\/a>Suckers galore!<\/p><\/div>\n
<\/a>Suckers suckers suckers!<\/p><\/div>\n
Here\u2019s the glamour shot:<\/p>\n
<\/a>An adorable larval sucker<\/p><\/div>\n
About that step of putting them in our cages…. In my last blog post I described how we were almost finished with setting up our docks. It turns out we were a little farther away than we thought. Long story short, the nets we ordered were longer than the docks we built. This meant that instead of using our finished individual docks, we needed rearrange them into two large docks and use the extra pieces to extend the legs. And we had to do it all while floating in the middle of the lake. And remember how our docks looked like this?<\/p>\n
<\/a>Before: Tule Lake individual dock<\/p><\/div>\n
Here\u2019s how they looked after only a week of being on the water:<\/p>\n
<\/a>After: Our fragrant, reassembled dock at Tule Lake<\/p><\/div>\n
Oh boy! I won\u2019t bore you with details but to sum it up, it was terrible.<\/p>\n
The good news is that after a week of reassembly, the docks are now finished at both Upper Klamath Lake and Tule Lake. They both have baby fish in them and I can officially say that the hard part of this summer is over. From here on out, we are simply monitoring the cages to make sure that everything is running smoothly. Here\u2019s hoping that everything does!<\/p>\n
<\/a>Finished dock at Upper Klamath Lake, complete with juvenile fish!<\/p><\/div>\n
-Alanna<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
We have fish! Wooohoo!! I have been at the Klamath Falls Fish and Wildlife office for almost three months working on propagating endangered shortnose suckers. It took two months before I even got a chance to see one. To recap, … Continue reading