Other: | Minimum qualifications: Experience demonstrating good knowledge of: fishery management practices to include habitat requirements, behavior of fish, fish population dynamics, limnology, stream ecology, taxonomy, diseases of fish, and aquatic insects and fishery research methods (including project design and management, data collection, data analyses, and interpretation and writing a final report of results).
Some knowledge of sport-fishing techniques.
Experience: conducting fish sampling and using basic sampling equipment; using various software and databases that are used in fisheries research or other related projects; making oral presentations to groups on fisheries related issues; writing articles for publication in newspapers, magazines and/or scientific journals. |
Description: | Conducts life history and habitat studies of fish populations.
Researches literature for relevant information and conducts project planning and field activities.
Performs data analysis and interpretation and makes recommendations.
Participates in developing detailed work plans.
Interviews anglers, conducts creel census, conducts spawning ground surveys and installs and maintains fish collection devices.
Collects research and management information at fish and game check stations.
Compiles and analyzes data such as age composition and growth rates of fish populations and prepares project reports. |
