 Today I'm going to show you a little bit about some ways that we collect fish and one of the primary ways is with electrophishing and electrophishing can be a lot of different forms. We can use backpack electrophishers for small streams and we can use a boat electrophisher and that's what we're going to be using today to show you how we collect fish in ponds. This type of electrophishing is standard for a lot of our fisheries organizations like your state fisheries managers as well as the federal managers and we also a lot of the consultants use it in ponds to help assess the status of the pond. Is the pond in balance? Does it have the right number of bass, bluegills, etc. So once we collect these fish we can weigh, measure them and because we're using electrophishing they're actually going to be stunned. They recover in a few minutes and for the most part we release them. Some species are somewhat sensitive to electrophishing like grass carp so we can't guarantee that not any of them will be injured but for the most part we can release nearly all the fish unharmed back into the pond.