Tagging Baby Salmon in AK

A female biologist in waders and a black ball-cap carefully scoops a baby salmon from one bucket to another in preparation to measure it, and waiting in the background is another biologist with a clipboard ready to take down the data.
Photo By/Credit
Katrina Liebich/USFWS
Date Shot/Created
08/30/2022
Media Usage Rights/License
Public Domain
Image
U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service Biologists prepare to measure, gather data and install a tiny tracker on a baby salmon. The tracker, also known as a Passive Integrated Transponder, is no larger than a single grain of rice.
Ecosystem
Forest
Lake
Mountain
River/stream
Rural
Recreational Activity
Photography
Fishing
Alaskan subsistence hunting and fishing
Fish viewing
Fly fishing
Species
Oncorhynchus kisutch
Oncorhynchus keta
Oncorhynchus tshawytscha
Oncorhynchus nerka
Oncorhynchus gorbuscha
Oncorhynchus mykiss
Subject tags
Biologists (USFWS)
Fish migration
Fish passage
Fisheries
Fisheries management
Fishes
Fishing
Road-stream crossings
Roads
Work of the Service