Re: [GSAS-Member] Fish Body to Donate for Scientific Research

["Paul Winchester" <bravo454@hotmail.com>]

Are you interested in any from Sockeye salmon? I should see some in the next
couple months.

They are supposed to have gone out to sea for 4 years before returning to
the river.

Paul
----- Original Message ----- 
From: <haika@drizzle.com>
To: <gsas-member@thekrib.com>
Sent: Tuesday, August 31, 2004 9:03 AM
Subject: Re: [GSAS-Member] Fish Body to Donate for Scientific Research


> Yep, it's me. I contacted Susan privately with several options, but if
> others have known age fish that die, I would love to examine their
> otoliths and attempt to figure out the growth patterns. The fish need to
> be more than 1 year of age, and I can't guarantee that I'll be able to
> even find the otolith in some species. The larger the otolith, the easier
> it is to find....and some really huge fish (like tuna/mackerels) have very
> very small otoliths that are very difficult to extract (shrug). You don't
> really know what to look for until you try to find it <G>. Maybe, if I can
> accumulate enough otoliths, and I can make sense out of the patterns, we
> could put together a short program for you all at some point in time.
>
> Betty Goetz
>
> > Dear Betty:
> >
> > I believe you are the one I talked to at the picnic that knew how to age
> > fish.
>
>
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