tagged salmonid makes it Dungeness

This past spring I got a chance to surgically implant aucostic tags in juvenile Coho. Out in the Strait there were monitors that would pick up the tags if the fish gets within a certain range (I forgot the range). I got to do about 6 surgeries and 4 out of the six I did got picked up by the monitor. Some casualties are expected because we do anesthesize them and make a small incision and insert the tag in the fish's peritoneum. The furtherest one was out by the Dungeness River. This was the first time that the biologist Ray Moses was doing it on his own also, so we were both really nervous about the outcome. I also got invited to sit in on a meeting at LEKT with Kurt Fresh. It was fun and I learned alot his project and some technical jargon!