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    This document provides a standard operating procedure for collecting and transporting fish caught in a beach seine with minimal mortality and stress. It outlines responsibilities, required materials, and step-by-step procedures for seining, immediately recovering fish and bycatch, transporting catches in well-oxygenated water, and ensuring their welfare on arrival at the marine station. Care is taken with sensitive species like salmon smolts and any injured animals. Collection records are also required.

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    This document provides a standard operating procedure for collecting and transporting fish caught in a beach seine with minimal mortality and stress. It outlines responsibilities, required materials, and step-by-step procedures for seining, immediately recovering fish and bycatch, transporting catches in well-oxygenated water, and ensuring their welfare on arrival at the marine station. Care is taken with sensitive species like salmon smolts and any injured animals. Collection records are also required.

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    This document provides a standard operating procedure for collecting and transporting fish caught in a beach seine with minimal mortality and stress. It outlines responsibilities, required materials, and step-by-step procedures for seining, immediately recovering fish and bycatch, transporting catches in well-oxygenated water, and ensuring their welfare on arrival at the marine station. Care is taken with sensitive species like salmon smolts and any injured animals. Collection records are also required.

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    Ac Beach-Seine V01

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    BEACH SEINE

    SOP # = Col2

    Purpose: Describes the procedure used to catch and transport fish from a beach
    seine site to BMSC with the least mortality possible.

    Policy: This method is recommended for the collection and transport of fish caught
    by beach seine.

    Responsibility: Public education assistants, animal care specialist, researchers,


    and university programs students.

    Materials: Beach seine net


    2 ropes
    Dip nets
    Buckets
    Hip waders

    Procedures:
    Note: Many delicate species are found in beach seine (eelgrass bed) sites. These
    sites are nursery areas for many species of fish. In the spring, great care must be
    taken not to impact salmon smolts (This means immediate release with no loss of
    scales).
    1. Person A will stay on the beach with one end of the seine net. The other end
    of the net remains in the boat and the driver brings the boat from the point A
    where person A is on the beach, out and around, in a semi circle to a point B,
    30 ft up the beach, to person B. (If the tide is low enough, this can also be
    done without a boat by persons in hip waders)
    2. The seine net is then slowly pulled in by persons A and B until the net is up on
    the shore. While pulling the net in, be sure the weighted side of the net drags
    along the bottom and the float side of the net stays at the surface.
    3. Several buckets of clean water should be filled prior to seining. Often the
    seine will stir up sediment, and making it difficult to fill buckets with clear water.
    If there are enough people present, someone should be assigned to ensure
    the buckets are ready and to immediately begin to recover fish once the net is
    brought in.
    4. Fish should immediately be put into buckets. A small amount of seaweed
    should be added to the bucket to give the fish a feel of safety (cover). This will
    help in recuperation. Any by-catch should immediately be released. If the by
    catch appears to be injured or disoriented give it time to recover (5-10
    minutes) in a bucket of cold seawater. Be very careful not to disrupt slime
    layer or scales of fish through handling.
    5. Fish to be transported to BMSC should be put into buckets and transported as
    soon as possible. From the time of capture, one quarter of the seawater
    should be refreshed every 20 minutes. This will keep the water oxygenated
    and cold. Refreshing seawater from the boat on the way back to BMSC is
    often a good option.
    6. Once the fish are at BMSC, they should be transferred to aquariums with
    flowing seawater, substrate to hide in and seaweed for cover. It is the
    researchers/instructors/TA’s responsibility to ensure that all animals collected
    are kept in as low stress conditions as possible, including having appropriate
    food and habitat.
    7. Potential seine sites should be checked with BMSC staff to ensure ongoing
    research is not disrupted.
    8. Collection records must be filled out in the BMSC collection record database

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