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Fall Midwater Trawl - Sacramento Deep Water Ship Channel
  • September 19, 2022

The California Department of Wildlife's Fall Midwater Trawl was out in the Sacramento Deep Water Ship Channel on Friday, September 16. They were supposed to be surveying for pelagic fish, but looks like they mainly found and captured a lot of invasive aquatic vegetation. That can't be good.

Two people standing on the deck of a boat sorting through a net picking out aquatic vegetation and fish.
Figure 1. California Department of Fish and Wildlife’s Fall Midwater Trawl staff sorting through invasive aquatic vegetation looking for fish (CDFW image).
Two people standing on the deck of a boat sorting aquatic vegetation and fish into two plastic buckets that came out of a net.
Figure 2. California Department of Fish and Wildlife staff sorting through the Fall Midwater Trawl catch of aquatic invasive weeds and fish and placing into buckets (CDFW image).
Person standing on the deck of a boat amidst a next at their feet filled with aquatic weeds, sticks, and a fish.
Figure 3. Aquatic weeds and sticks mostly captured in the Fall Midwater Trawl in the Sacramento Deep Water Ship Channel (CDFW image).

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Categories: FMWT
Tagged: Aquatic Vegetation