Archive for Tom Rayner
Dr Tom Rayner is a Research Fellow at the University of New South Wales. His research focuses on the responses of freshwater fish to environmental flows in arid-zone wetlands. This includes the investigation of hydrological connectivity and fish movements. He has a background in small tropical rivers, flood pulse dynamics, feeding ecology and pest management.
Electrofishing in the Australian news
Researchers from DSE Victoria have hit Australia’s mainstream media, appearing online at the Sydney Morning Herald and Melbourne’s Age, owned by the Fairfax media empire, fishing the Murray River with their Smith Root boat.
Click here to view the video.
Popularity: 16% [?]
Popularity: 16% [?]
1Jun2010 | Tom Rayner | 0 comments | Continued
Lord Faraday, fool for a lifetime
Lord Faraday presents a big step forward in small boat design for Australian river and wetland electrofishing operations. So many great features have been packed on board, while still providing ample space for other gear and a 2- or 3-person crew. Once adjustments to the trailer are complete, I think one would be hard-pressed to find a slicker unit on Australia’s waterways (mind you, I’m slightly biased).
Popularity: 18% [?]
6May2010 | Tom Rayner | 1 comment | Continued
Electrofishing videos
Catching Sea Trout using a barge mounted system. Personally, I wouldn’t be comfortable with the number of people in the water at once or the lack of insulating gloves.
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Popularity: 46% [?]
27Sep2009 | Tom Rayner | 0 comments | Continued
Electrofishing with Power v1.41
The latest version of Electrofishing with Power begins to answer the question that all electrofishing users should be asking, ‘Can my equipment actually catch the fish that are here?’.
Popularity: 49% [?]
27Sep2009 | Tom Rayner | 0 comments | Continued
USFWS Electrofishing Course at UNSW 27-29 October 2009
First-class professional development course tailored to fisheries researchers and managers from government, industry and education. Click for details.
Popularity: 60% [?]
12Aug2009 | Tom Rayner | 2 comments | Continued
Canadian Rviers Institute (CRI) elctrofishing training
The Canadian Rviers Institute (CRI) offers backpack and boat electrofishing training in a two-part certificate course. All course content is accessedby participants via online training (available in English and French) and after completing and passing the final test, participants must complete a
half-day (full-day for boat) field practicum in order to receive the certificate.
We can [...]
Popularity: 69% [?]
26Mar2009 | Tom Rayner | 0 comments | Continued
U.S. Electrofishing Course Schedule
NWETC is pleased to announce 2009’s schedule of backpack & boat
electrofishing workshops, taught by Dr. Jim Reynolds, professor
emeritus at the University of Alaska, Fairbanks.
Both the boat and backpack versions are three-day courses, with most
of the middle day devoted to getting hands-on experience in the field.
These will be the public course dates for this year:
BACKPACK electrofishing, [...]
Popularity: 71% [?]
12Mar2009 | Tom Rayner | 1 comment | Continued
MICROFISH – electrofishing removal data
This software package, available through the American Fisheries Society, was developed by John Van Deventer, USDA Forest Service in the late 1980s. It is used for generating population estimates from removal data based on maximum-likelihood estimation theory. It costs $10 and can be ordered here.
Popularity: 59% [?]
29Jan2009 | Tom Rayner | 0 comments | Continued
Electrofishing and fish health
“Electrofishing is a valuable tool for fishery management and research, but when resultant injuries to fish are a problem and cannot be adequately reduced, we must abandon or severely limit its use and seek less harmful alternatives. This is our ethical responsibility to the fish, the populace we serve, and ourselves.” – Darrel Snyder.
Popularity: 73% [?]
28Jan2009 | Tom Rayner | 1 comment | Continued
UNSW to build new electrofishing boat
The Waterbirds, Wetlands & Rivers Research Lab, in conjunction with the Fisheries & Marine Environmental Research Facility (FAMER), at the University of New South Wales, has received funding to build a new electrofishing boat.
Popularity: 84% [?]
19Jan2009 | Tom Rayner | 3 comments | Continued