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Recaptured Pallid

Detailed Description

USGS employees Beau Griffith (left) and Becky Welly (right) hold a telemetered pallid sturgeon they recaptured in a trammel net.  The wooden object with 2 white buoys to the right of Welly is call a "Buck" or a "Mule" and is used to pull the end of the net along in the current.

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Public Domain.