Set lines are pretty much, trout line if you know what a trout line is, is but it's deployed offshore.

So it's got to be lines that run down two anchors.

And then a mother line runs along the bottom.

And then these little clips with hooks on them are baited with sucker.

So the fish come and grab grabs on to it at gets caught, but they're still able to swim freely.

And that, greatly reduces, mortality of captured fish versus a gillnet I'm Nick bogie on the fisheries biologist with the 1854 Treaty Authority.

Today we'll be setting set lions for sturgeon.

We began this project in 2019 This is a method seem to work really well as far as reducing those bycatch.

And also we actually are catching more sturgeon.

once the fish is captured and put into, our bending over, here we are.

We scan them for a pit tag, which is a 15 digit unique, code to that fish.

If it has one, we leave it alone and undocumented.

If it doesn't have one, it, use a hypodermic needle to put it behind the second dorsal scoot.

The fish is then, measured, weighed, a girth is taken, and then we also remove a fin clip, which was we can use it for genetics for where that fish, parentage came from.

And then also now we are giving them to the EPA, they're actually able to sex the individuals because a lot of times you can only tell the sex in the spring when they're spawning.

So this data is being used for a lot of different things.

We're trying to reestablish this population that was once almost completely gone to the pollution dams and things like that.

it's such a long live fish that we're making progress, but there's still some hurdles that we are still trying to figure out.

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