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-77- <br />FISH COLLECTING GEAR <br />Experimental Gill Nets: <br />The experimental gill net was the most widely used piece of equipment <br />for fish collecting purposes. This was due primarily to manpower shortages <br />which made it impossible to operate the shockers effectively. <br />Gill nets were most effective immediately after ice cover had gone from <br />the. river and in the early summer. High water conditions in June and July <br />brought large amounts of beaver cuttings and trash into the gill netting <br />area;Iouling many of the net sets. Large amounts of floating algae had a <br />similar effect in the late summer. Algae, at times, formed almost a solid <br />wall on the nets sweeping them into shore on the downstream side. <br />Gill Netting at Mouth of the Big Sandy River <br />~""* <br />;~ ~ .. <br />.i'. <br />,. ~ , <br />~?~~,~..w- . <br />-~ <br />,- ~ -~.`= <br />_ -~ <br />;,- .. ,~ <br />Y~ ~ ~ ~ ~. . <br />:~ -~ '~ <br />~r~ <br />Gill-Netting in the Flaming Gorge Canyon <br />