Columbia River Estuary seine sampling for juvenile Chinook salmon for mark- recapture to evaluate residency time. Seine boat and crew.

Seining for juvenile salmon for mark-recapture study at Russian Island. Crew pulling in net.

Equipment installation at Ice Harbor Dam for juvenile salmon radio-telemetry study. Upstream side of spillbay.

Electro-shocking for juvenile wild salmon (parr) to PIT-tag for mark recapture study in Salmon River drainage in Idaho wilderness.

Chinook salmon being surgically tagged with a radio-telemetry tag.

Estrella Malca gets tready to deploy the MOCNESS aboard the NOAA ship GORDON GUNTER.

Dr. Bill Richards examines remains of a sailfish at the South East Fisheries Science Center's necropsy lab.

Students A. Morgan and L. Logan seine off the high-rises of Miami.

Students A. Morgan and L. Logan seine along the beach of Virginia Key. They were collecting settlement stage snappers for a Coral Reef project.

Dr. Dave Jones and Estrella Malca seine along the beach collecting snapper for a Coral Reef project.

Fish larvae collected with light traps off the Xcalak reef lagoon.

Captain Dog watches over his master's boat. This boat transported the results of larval fish sampling efforts.

Strange cluster of eggs floating off the beach during larval fish sampling efforts.

Sport fishing boats during tournament

Sport fishing boats headed toward the fish

Landing a large dolphin fish, known as mahi mahi.

Sport fishermen waiting for a strike

Sport fishermen trolling

GPS navigator used for small boat navigation

An assemblage of fishing gear

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Long-lining operation - placing hooks

Long-lining operation - placing hooks

Tissue sample from large fish

Tagging and placing tracking device on large billfish

Tagging and placing tracking device on large billfish

Tagging and placing tracking device on large billfish

Tracking device enticing sportfishermen to return device with data intact

Tagging, taking tissue sample, and placing tracking device on large billfish

Tagging, taking tissue sample, and placing tracking device on large billfish

Tissue sample from large fish

Large swordfish on deck during long-lining operations

Satellite tracking device placed on swordfish prior to return to ocean

Reading the angle indicator to measure the inclination of the outgoing winch line.

Tagging fish.

Casting net for juvenile menhaden.

Beaufort NMFS agent at fish meal plant.

NMFS port agent waiting to inspect menhaden boat as it arrives in port.

Beach seining.

Seining from a small boat in a snow squall.

Sampling during the annual field sampling of chum salmon carcasses for scales, lengths, and weights. The Ocean Carrying Capacity program conducts the annual field survey as part of a long term monitoring program on changes in the size age of chum salmon in North America.L to R Jerry Pella (Statistician), Jack Helle (Program Manager), and Chuck Guthrie (Research Biologist).

Tagging immature salmon on board the Japanese vessel KAIYO MARU. Urawa-san (a Japanese researcher) is releasing an immature salmon that was captured in the trawl net and tagged with disk tags. The Ocean Carrying Capacity program collaborates with Canada, Japan, and Russia on the Bering Aleutian Salmon International Survey program, a long-term ecosystem research program.

NWFSC scientists Dave Misitano and John Ferguson are beach seining for juvenile salmon in a reference area for a study examining contaminant exposure and health of juvenile salmon in Puget Sound.

NWFSC scientists Dave Misitano and John Ferguson are sorting the catch from a beach seine in a reference area for a study examining contaminant exposure and health of juvenile salmon in Puget Sound.

NWFSC scientists sort the catch of a beach seine in an industrial waterway for a study examining contaminant exposure and health of juvenile salmon in Puget Sound.

Juvenile salmon were collected by NWFSC scientists for a study of contaminant exposure and fish health. A seine is used to collect fish from a dock in an industrial waterway.

A NWFSC scientist removes juvenile salmon from a seine. These fish were collected in an industrial waterway for a study of contaminant exposure and fish health. The NOAA ship McArthur (in background) provided vessel support during this study.

NWFSC scientist Cindy Bucher retrieves a beach seine in an industrial waterway for a study examining contaminant exposure and health of juvenile salmon in Puget Sound.

Plankton collection from the dock at the NWFSC field station at Mukilteo.

Collection of mummichog from a Rhode Island salt pond six months after an oil spill washed into the pond. This salt pond was also a wildlife refuge, so canoes and traps were used to collect fish, rather than powerboats and trawls. Lawrence Chicelly (NOAA Corp) assisted NWFSC scientists with fish collections to examine fish health and contaminant exposure.