Seine Day #2 for the Fish Group

Our day began Sunday November 10, 2013 out at the GTMNEER at 9 am. As a group we decided to make Sunday our seine day because with the tides we had to work with, it made it a better fit to seine. The four of us made it out on site a little after 9:30 and to our surprise the tide was a bit low still for us to do anything. So to make good use of our time though, we split up and began measuring out our sections of the on reef and off reef location, and we doubled checked our equipment and made sure everything was ready to go once the tide came in. After some time pasted, the tide finally came in enough for us to begin. Water quality, turbidity reading, and water samples were collected first from the on reef site and off reef site. After that, Jon and i had the task of dragging the net at each of our four locations (2 on reef and 2 off reef) while Shannon and Natalia recorded what was caught. Since this was our second go around seining, collectively as a group were able to get a pretty efficient system down that seemed to really make the whole collection process go by pretty fast. Overall, the day was very productive, I felt like we collected pretty good data.

Second encounter in the same weekend, I almost stepped on this one two!