Padro,
The Larval Fish Laboratory (Snyder and Muth) assembled a very rough video displaying and demonstrating deployment of various type of gear used to collect the early life stages of fish (particularly ichthyoplankton and non-planktonic fish larvae). Gear include a "duo-net" (poor man's version of the bongo net), and opening/closing conical ichthyoplankton net, an ichthyoplankton net mounted on a sled, Miller sampler (small conical net preceded by a long solid tube and mouth-reduction cone--for higher speed sampling; improperly deployed in the video without a depressor), a 3-net, opening/closing tucker-trawl, rectangular drift-nets anchored by line and by stake, two types of larval fish light traps, a one-man fine-mesh seine (1 meter square), and a fine-mesh dip net. The video was originally prepared for Larval Fish Ecology shortcourses we offered several years ago but continues to be used in a Fisheries Techniques course here at Colorado State University. It is a bit long (31 minutes) and in need of serious editing (we simply fast-forward through unnecessaryly long segments that don't contribute any useful information).
The video was not intended for general distibution but if you (and others that may be interested) are willing to work around its faults, a copy can be ordered from our university's "Office of Instructional Service (A71 Clark Building, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado 80523). I expect cost will be under US$25 including mailing. You can ascertain the exact cost and ordering procedures through Ms. Claussen--email address "[log in to unmask]". The video is entitled "Sampling fish Larvae: Selected Gear" and has an Instructional Services catalog number of TV05407.
Darrel E. Snyder Research Associate Larval Fish Laboratory Curator, LFL Collection 33J Wagar Building Telephone: (970)491-5295 Colorado State University Fax: (970)491-5091 Fort Collins, Colorado 80523 E-mail: [log in to unmask] WEB: http://www.CNR.ColoState.edu/~desnyder/desnyder.html
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