What did we do?

We used gill nets and trap nets to catch six kinds of fish: walleyes, black crappies, white suckers, bluegills, pumpkinseeds and bullheads. Working with tribal biologist, Doug McArthur, we counted these fish and used the totals to figure out how many of each kind of fish were living in this huge lake. We then compared our fish count to data that had been collected on the lake for the past three years to determine the fish population's stability. more...