Beam Reach

Garrison Bay to Roche Harbor

Today we focused on fishing for the opening day of lingcod season. Everyone caught at least one fish, with several lingcod (too small for tagging unfortunately), and a few quill back rockfish. Laura caught the first taggable fish, a 26 inch lingcod. The surgery was performed after a few second dip in clove oil water anesthetized the fish. A small lateral incision was made in the ventral side of the fish and the tag was inserted. The incision was stitched up delicately and the patient seemed to be doing well upon release. We spent the whole afternoon fishing around Limekiln with our fish expert Eric and naturalist friend Erin and Jason in Eric’s motorboat for the second lingcod big enough to tag, but we were unsuccessful and had to quit around 5pm.

Real Time Chart of the Gato Verde

This is a cool new feature we’ve just implemented. On the Gato Verde we’ve got a transponder that sends a signal every 10 minutes or so and it is logged in a database so that we know where the boat is. The company that makes this transponder is called SPOT and they created a new map sharing tool that allows us to safely share the near-real-time position of the Gato Verde.

I don’t have it confirmed yet, but I think I just saw the GV sail past Lime Kiln. When I look at the SPOT chart it seems possible. It’s fun to look at the chart, listen to Orcasound, and watch the Orcacam.

Here are the links:

http://beamreach.org/map.html

http://www.whaleresearch.com/thecenter/orcacam01.html

http://orcasound.net/

Enjoy!