Very Cool, Thanks! Just in time for me to teach an ecology unit at school. Going to have to rework the lesson plans.

Thanks, Jason! I know it has to be done, but watching a fish out of water that long makes me cringe. Isn't there some way they can space out the process a little? Milk them, put them back in the water; check their tag, put them back; draw some blood, release? I'm not the expert, but I'm just asking out of curiosity….

"hemichemi" said:
Don't forget: those fish are sedated. Stress is low and so is their metabolism when they're on their fishy version of Valium. They should fare far better than when we catch them fishing. Plus, they're nicely chilled-out before they get man-handled, not all stressed, and "out of breath" like they are when we catch them.

That is true. I didn't think about that part.