Yellow Perch Project

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It wasn't too hot, a breeze kept the mosquitoes at bay, the sky was a gorgeous shade of blue and 14 members of the Southern Maryland Chapter seined 15,000 yellow perch fry out of the Mirant pond.</div> <div>  </div> <div> The group shot speaks for itself - we should have held a meeting.</div> <div>  </div> <div> The shot with the CCA and yellow perch sign was a nice touch. Mirant provided the sign, the net, and leadership. Ralph Nolletti provided the truck and tank.</div> <div> <IMG SRC="104902c0.jpg" border=0 width="400" height="300" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div>  </div> <div> Paul Willenborg of Mirant weighed the nets of fish. Warren Brown and Teresa Engel counted the fish in one scoop that weighed 1.2 pounds and we scaled the total weight of all the scoops to estimate the catch. Many thanks to Paul and Mirant for helping us and the yellow perch.</div> <div>  </div> <div> The last picture wasn't taken to continue our tendency to capture people's backsides - it was the only one with a closeup glimpse of the new CCA Southern Maryland banner.</div> <div> <IMG SRC="1052c900.jpg" border=0 width="300" height="400" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div>  </div> <div> I think Sandy said we had over 70 pictures - just be glad I didn't attach all of them.</div> <bR> <div> Here is the rest of the story - the restocking part. Most people didn't make it to McIntosh Run for the restocking but that was ok because the really labor-intensive part was seining the pond at Mirant.</div> <bR> <div>  </div> <div> We started with buckets - Phil and Bruce dumping them. Maybe we can crop this for a vertical picture on the cover of this year's report.<IMG SRC="106902c0.jpg" border=0 width="400" height="300" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div>  </div> <div> Then we went "higher tech" - Ralph was running out of time and had to go to work. We ran a hose over the bank and opened the valve. It wasn't quite that easy - but it really worked great.</div> <div> <IMG SRC="1072c900.jpg" border=0 width="300" height="400" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div>  </div> <div> Yellow perch were everywhere!! They squirted out of the hose and into McIntosh where it is only about 3' deep and 30' wide. I was on the other side taking pictures and they were all around me. The dark silhouette is the shadow from one of the fish.</div> <div> <IMG SRC="1082c050.jpg" border=0 width="300" height="261" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div>  </div> <div> We had to net the ones in the very bottom of the tank and dump them by bucket.</div> <div> <IMG SRC="109902c0.jpg" border=0 width="400" height="300" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div>  </div> <div> A few died and I used this one to show how big they were. This one was about average.</div> <div> <IMG SRC="10a902c0.jpg" border=0 width="400" height="300" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <bR> </td> </tr></table></body>