Fisheries Field Skills Program graduates are qualified to perform fish and fish habitat inventory and assessments directly, or as an assistant to professional biologists, hydrologists, experienced technicians, and other fisheries professionals.
Upon successful completion, participants will be qualified and able to:
- Conduct standard fish and fish habitat inventory and assessment procedures
- Conduct backpack electrofishing surveys
- Perform water quality sampling procedures
- Conduct fisheries field hydrology procedures
- Conduct advanced fish habitat and fish population assessments
- Conduct biological sampling methods and design a biological sampling program
- Conduct fish inventory & capture procedures
- Design and conduct a stream invertebrate sampling program
- Construct and install streambank restoration techniques and structures
- Isolate an instream construction project and conduct a fish salvage