Hatchery day at Point Whitney for the USDA & WSG Lifestage Carryover Project.

Overview

Today I visited the Point Whitney hatchery in Brinnon, WA to check on the status of the C. gigas lifestage carry over experiment.

The experiment is detailed in Eric’s notebook.

See previous posts about this project in my notebook.

Tasks

• Checked on water flow and positioned tanks such that water will flow directly into them even if the tubing comes off the outflows
• Cleaned water outflows
• Cleaned and rinsed all tanks

I noticed that the algae food bucket was empty when I arrived (~13:15). I filled it from the header tank at 14:00.

I took a quick look at the juvenile and adult stages and did not see any mortality!

Overall everything looked clean and happy.