NHF&G Uses Technology In The Schools.

NH Students monitor water quality.

 

NH Fish & Game Technology

Technology comes to school.


Editor's Note: This is the first in a series of articles about technology used at NH's Department of Fish & Game. More articles to follow soon.

Judy Tumosa, a Watershed Education Specialist, coordinates the Watershed Education Program for the NH Department of Fish & Game. She primarily trains teachers to work with their students to monitor nearby bodies of water which in turn helps to keep them healthy for fish and wildlife. Dissolved oxygen, turbidity, conductivity, pH and water temperature are all checked with water quality meters provided by a federal grant.

Teachers and/or students have no need to take written notes: their observations are recorded on iPads and mobile devices A NH student examines a fish egg under a microscope. available through Fish & Game partnerships with other organizations. The data is then uploaded to an ArcGIS watershed map used by, and in conjunction with other departments and schools statewide. While waterside, monitors can go the extra mile, borrowing F&G waders and also observe macro invertebrates, netting them with gear also provided by a federal grant.

Classes have additional options too. After permitting, schools can use aquarium-like tanks to rear trout eggs provided by the NHF&G's state hatcheries. An average class will nurture 100-200 eggs and will frequently see a near-nature like success of 85-90% survival rate. When ready, the fish are released into permitted waters that the students have studied for water quality and macroinvertebrate populations.

Gung Ho classes can take two additional steps. Instead of trout, classrooms can opt to rear warm water species and collect juvenile bass, pickerel, perch, golden shiners and even dace. And for real fun, classes can wade 100 or so feet up streams or small rivers with Tumosa as she and F&G fisheries biologists use an Electro Fishing device, temporarily stunning fish who then float to the surface. Waiting students catch them in small buckets to be taken ashore and weighed and then returned to the river.

About 100 schools across the state participate in one or more of the programs.

NH teachers being taught how to do a fish census.

 

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