2005 January - Volunteer's Activity Corner
by Allen Smith, Board Chairman and Volunteer Coordinator
Mary Hermansky, our Fish Care Volunteer Coordinator, and I want to thank all of our great volunteers who are doing such a terrific job of performing our fish care activities at the Kingfisher Flat Anadramous Fish Rearing & Research Facility. I also want to give special thanks for the following major contributions to MBSTP’s programs:
- For the outstanding jobs that Bob Eustice and his Santa Cruz Harbor crew and Steve Stanton and his Moss Landing Harbor crew performed in erecting, operating, disassembling, and storing our Chinook Salmon Enhancement Program components. Many hundreds of labor-hours are required annually to conduct these efforts.
- For the outstanding jobs that many or our volunteers performed in 2003, 2004, and are still doing in completing our many construction, repair, and erection projects. These efforts involve several thousands of labor-hours, and we can’t thank you enough for your seemingly tireless devotion to completing these tasks successfully.
- For the excellent job that over 80 of our volunteers performed at our annual steelhead fin clip on December 4, 2004. We fin clipped approximately 42,300 steelhead, and we experienced a relatively low mortality rate.
As always, we continue to need new volunteers to supplement our group of fish care volunteers. We will be performing training sessions for fish care activities in late March and April of 2005. If you are interested in helping us occasionally with this urgent work of fish care at our Kingfisher Flat facility near Davenport, please contact Mary Hermansky at 831-458-3095. You may also contact me, Allen Smith at 831-722-4753, E-mail
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or send a note to my attention at: MBSTP, P.O. Box 417, Davenport, CA 95017.
We wish to all of you Happy Holidays and a very prosperous 2005 New Year to all of you great volunteers.
