Wednesday, August 6, 2014
8 6 2014 Manchester Repro check
Hi 60s to Low 80s
Performed the anesthesia SOP with insulation and ice blocks on the treatment tub and tarp on the pretreatment and recovery tubs. Forgot my work box when I was packing yesterday and had to borrow a digital thermometer, ruler, refractometer, and notebook from Doug and Andy at the NOAA facility. The thermometer read in Fahrenheit and the refractometer hadn't been calibrated recently. The readings from both seemed accurate enough though the Temp readings will need to be converted to Celsius at some point. As for spawning, the animals at Manchester seem to be increasing their spawning efforts as the next tidal cycle approaches. I had 4 brooders in the southern pop and 2 in the dabob pop, all of pretty good quality. It wouldn't surprise me with the temperatures that if the current temperatures remain through the middle of September these animals might continue spawning until they are forced to stop by temp influence.
Numbers as Follow:
Temps in F
Pretreatment
Initial 64
45 66
1.5 67
Treatment
Initial 68
45 69
1.5 70
2.25 69
Recovery
Initial 61
45 63
1.5 64
Salinity in ppt
Pretreatment 33
Treatment 65
Recovery 34
Brood Collection
4H1-4
Brood 2
Gaping 77
Dead 12
Closed 5
Brooders
# Size Sick
1 24 W
2 24 W
4N9-12
Brood 0
Gaping 45
Dead 4
Closed 5
4S9-12
Brood 4
Gaping 50
Dead 11
Closed 7
Brooders
# size sick
1 24 W
2 22 W
3 25 W
4 25 Grey
Pics are of all animals. Brooders are between purple ruler and tube label. Closed are on the same tile as brooders. Gaping animals are on all other tiles. Some crossover due to adhered animals on tiles.
Friday, August 1, 2014
8 1 2014 Fidalgo Repro Check
Mid 60s to high 70s. Sunny until 2 pm then partly cloudy
Performed the anesthesia SOP with insulation on the treatment tub and ice blocks in the Treatment and recovery tubs to stabilize temperature fluctuations. Had a really poor treatment of the north sound tray and a less than great treatment of the south pop tray. Less than a third of the animals were gaping in north pop and only a little over half in the South pop were open. The Dabob tray was over 95% treated. I'm not sure we missed any brooders though as South sound only had a few and Dabob had none. I'm not sure why the animals didn't open but I assume that it might be due to the fact that they were quickly sprayed with fresh water to help knock off some of the more intense sediment deposits on them. This great to know for next time so I don't accidentally deter treatment. It seems like spawning season is winding down in Fidalgo. I'll be interested to see what the next tidal cycle does. Also yesterday I had a problem with the Hobo Shuttle. It would not read the logger pendant. I brought the logger pendant and shuttle with me to make sure neither of them was screwed up. Today I retried the pendant with the shuttle and the data offload properly. I think what happened yesterday was the shuttle go hot sitting in the sun in my tool box. The air was pretty stagnant and it got much hotter than expected. I'll double check everything on Monday to make sure the file and shuttle are in working order.
Numbers as Follow:
Temps in C
Pretreatment * Lacking the tarp and with little breeze, the trays changed temps faster than expected.
Initial 10
45 15
1.5 15
Treatment
Initial 13
45 13
1.5 14
2.25 14
Recovery
Initial 15
45 15
1.5 15
Salinity in ppt
Pretreatment 27
Treatment 60
Recovery 28
Brood Collection
2N5-8
Brood 0
Gaping 28
Dead 0
Closed 68
2S9-12
Brood 3
Gaping 45
Dead 0
Closed 38
Brooder
# size sick
1 30 W
2 35 W
3 33 W
2H13-16
Brood 0
Gaping 84
Dead 0
Closed 2
As for Pics. There were so few treated in the North pop that the tube label and calipers are on the tile with the gapers and the rest of the tiles are closed. The South pop tray is like normal with the brooders between the tube label and calipers. The Dabob tray had so many gapers that they are on all tiles but the closed guys are above the tube and calipers.
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Thursday, July 31, 2014
7 31 2014 oyster bay repro check
Kamilche shores, wa
Hi 60s to low 80s sunny
Participants: Sean Bennett and Jake heare
Performed anesthesia sop with insulation on treatment tub and ice blocks on recovery tubs. Found very few brooders again. I think it is a stack effect due to the unholy amounts of mussels set on the trays and oysters. Tried to clean them off but too many. Mussels probably consuming all sperm in water column.
Numbers as follow
Temps in c
Pretreatment
Initial. 17
45. 18
1.5. 22
Treatment
Initial. 15
45. 14
1.5. 15
2.25. 16
Recovery
Initial. 18
45. 20
1.5. 21
Salinity in ppt
Pretreatment. 26
Treatment. 60
Recovery. 27
Brood collection
1N5-8
Brood. 1
Gaping. 50
Dead. 0
Closed. 0
Brooders
# size. Sick
1. 30. W. Partial sample due to spillage.
1S13-16
Brood. 0
Gaping. 70
Dead. 0
Closed. 2
1H1-4
Brood. 1
Gaping. 59
Dead. 2
Closed. 8
Brooders
# size. Sick
1. 32. Grey
Wednesday, July 30, 2014
7 30 2014 Manchester Repro Check
Hi 60's to low 80's
Performed the anesthesia SOP with insulation on the treatment tub and water addition to the pretreatment and recovery tubs. Found one brooder in Southern and Dabob populations each. Also talked to Stuart at PSRF about spawning groups, he said they spawn Olys in groups of twenty.
Numbers as Follow
Temps in C
Pretreatment
Initial 11
45 12
1.5 14
Treatment
Initial 13
45 13
1.5 13
2.25 13
Recovery
Initial 13
45 15
1.5 17
Salinity in ppt
Pretreatment 28
Treatment 60
Recovery 27
Brood Collection
4S13-16
Brood 1
Gaping 69
Dead 10
Closed 10
Brooder
# Size Sick
1 24 W *Sample of poor quality due to screen failure
4N1-4
Brood 0
Gaping 45
Dead 12
Closed 7
4H9-12
Brood 1
Gaping 45
Dead 9
Closed 11
Brooder
# size sick
1 20 w
Pics have brooders between tube label and caliper. Closed oysters on the same tile. Open oysters on the other three tiles. Some oysters on closed/brooder tiles are open and vice versa due to the fact of the guys glued to the tiles.
Monday, July 28, 2014
7 28 2014 Temp Data Manipulation
See attached notebook
Friday, July 25, 2014
7 25 2014 Fidalgo repro check
Anacortes wa
Mid 60s to mid 70s sunny
Performed the anesthesia sop with insulation on treatment tub and a tarp on the Pretreatment and recovery tubs. Treatment less effective than normal but still had an acceptable amount of Gaping oysters. Found many grey sick animals in the south pop.
Numbers as follow :
Temps in c
Pretreatment
Initial. 9
45. 11
1.5. 11
Treatment.
Initial. 11
45. 11
1.5. 11
2.25. 11
Recovery
Initial. 11
45. 12
1.5. 14
Salinity in ppt
Pretreatment. 27
Treatment. 63
Recovery. 25
Brood collection
2N9-12
Brood. 0
Gaping. 55
Dead. 0
Closed. 45
2H1-4
Brood. 2
Gaping. 50
Dead. 0
Closed. 36
Brooders
# size. Sick
1. 20. W
2. 22. W
2S5-8
Brood. 6
Gaping. 72
Dead. 0
Closed. 25
Brooders
# size. Sick
1. 29. Grey
2. 25. Grey
3. 30. Grey
4. 30. W
5. 32. W
6. 31. Grey
Oyster below calipers closed. Oysters between calipers and label tube brooders.
Thursday, July 24, 2014
7 24 2014. Oyster bay repro check
Oyster bay wa
High 60s to low 70s partly cloudy
Performed the anesthesia sop with insulation on treatment tub and a tarp on the Pretreatment and recovery tubs. Brooding back to normal with most brooders in southern pop, and equal numbers between north and dabob. Also crab fresh cleaning salt water lines used their water for Pretreatment but not for recovery because pump was shut down.
Numbers as follow
Temps in c
Pretreatment
Initial. 15
45. 15
1.5. 15
Treatment
Initial. 12
45. 12
1.5. 12
2.25. 13
Recovery
Initial. 13
45. 13
1.5. 14
Brood collection
1S1-4
Brood. 8
Gaping. 75
Dead. 4
Closed. 7
Brooders
# size. Sick
1. 24. W
2. 34. W
3. 30. W
4. 30. W
5. 30. W
6. 25. W
7. 26. W
8. 27. W
1N9-12
Brood. 3
Gaping. 68
Dead. 0
Closed. 10
Brooders
# size. Sick
1. 33. W
2. 28. W
3. 30. W
1H9-12
Brood. 4
Gaping. 72
Dead. 4
Closed. 6
Brooders
# size. Sick
1. 25. W
2. 26. W
3. 28. W
4. 25. W. No sample.
Also pics are of whole tray. Brooders between tube and calipers or bag. Closed same time outside of brooders. Rest are gapers.