Jackson Beach Seining
I woke up at 6:15 AM to go Jackson Beach seining this morning. The reason why we went seining was to hopefully catch some sand lance for Charlie and Nick's research project.
Once we arrived to the beach, we quickly unloaded all the material we needed and carried it to the beach. We uncoiled the net and rope and placed it into the row boat. Nick and Jessica rowed out into the water and started dropping the rope and net. Once the net deployment was completed, we started to pull the ropes in from each side. There were about 10 of us this morning so 5 on each side worked out perfectly. My hands were rubbed raw from tugging the rope in. The mixture of the cold air, cold water, and sand exfoliated my skin.
We seined twice, hoping to catch sand lance, but we didn't get any. We caught 3 sculpins, 2 tubesnouts, 4 spiny lumpsuckers, 2 helmet crabs, 3 northern kelp crabs, 2 pygmy rock crabs, and a nudibranch.
This was the last time the PEF kids were going out to seine for their project. Once we got everything cleaned off, recoiled, and back in the buckets, we carried them back to the car and loaded everything. We made it back to the labs before 9 AM. Just in time for breakfast! Today was was great, although we didn't catch anything, I was still happy to see all the different species of organisms at that time of day!
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