Electroshocking for Steelhead in Eagle Creek

Photo By/Credit

McBride, Tess

Date Shot/Created

07/01/2010

Media Usage Rights/License

Public Domain

Image

Electroshocking is a non-lethal process that creates involuntary muscular responses in fish and causes them to float towards the surface of the water.

Facility

Eagle Creek National Fish Hatchery

Subject tags

Work of the Service

Monitoring

Mark-recapture studies

Fishes

Fisheries management

Fish hatcheries

Endangered and/or Threatened species

Employees (USFWS)

Biologists (USFWS)