Tony
Noturus_at_aol.com wrote:
> In a message dated 9/18/00 8:17:56 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
> thirdwind_at_att.net writes:
>
> << JR, what projects do you folks at Conservation Fisheries have going on now?
> How about upcoming plans? I was reading on your web page at
> http://www.conservationfisheries.org about your grant from the the American
> Zoological Association for captive breeding of Fundulus julisia. I'm
> guessing that's your big project at this time.
> Oh, and congratulations!
>
> --
> Jay DeLong >>
>
> Thanks Jay. I suppose I could make a list..... Pat and I just got back from
> the Elk R. today. Looking for boulder darters. We put out around 300 tagged
> ones that were spawned last year. We found 4....pretty good considering the
> six inch working visibility....thanks cows!
>
> We have several madtom propagation projects underway....yellowfins, smoky,
> pygmy and some others we're playing with.
>
> We have around 4000 spotfin chub babies right now. We are also breeding
> relict darters, duskytail darters, goldline darters, more boulder darters,
> Cahaba shiners, Cape Fear shiners, and of course the Barrens topminnows.
>
> Then there's all the survey work! We're scrambling to get done before cold
> weather...especially the night work.
>
> About the web page. I haven't had time to play with it in a long while! I
> thought I had someone that wass gonna help us with it, but he's moving away
> for another job. I hope to have it updated before too long. I want to have a
> "What's new" section that could be updated monthly. I want to be able to post
> our reports to the web (some would have to be accessable through a
> password).....maybe this fall...sigh...
>
> We were doing topminnow work last week. That's really depressing! They're
> evidently down to two pops. We pretty much verified their absence from one
> stream system last week by walking nearly the entire stream. I have briar
> cuts, sawgrass cuts and chiggers!
>
> That whole area has been badly impacted by poor agriculture practices! There
> are some restorations projects underway and there are some very cooperative
> landowners that really do want to do the right thing! The Nature Conservancy
> has done alot here.
>
> Better run.....
>
> J.R.
>
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