Electrofishing As A Sampling Method
Beginning of paper
There are a number of ways to collect fish for management and
research, and there are various methods involving traps and nets to capture
different types of fish and each method has its own advantages and
shortcomings. The technique of electrofishing is perhaps one of the most
useful and effective ....
Middle of paper
.... connect the electrodes to the backpack
unit. The backpack unit itself is housed in waterproof casing and mounted
on a non-conductive frame. Power is supplied from a battery,
conventionally 12-24V DC. Outputs from back mounted units can range
anywhere from 100V to over 1000V DC with amperage from 10-60A. Maximum
output power also varies from about 8Kw-70Kw. All backpack units offer the
ability to select different levels of output and some of the more costly
models offer different wavefor ....
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