This activity should only be done with experienced ice fishers

How long does it take?
About 4 hours

Who is it for?

• School groups, youth groups
• Up to 15 students
• 8-16 years old. Activities must be flexible depending on age group.

Materials:

• Warm clothes
  • Gloves
  • Hat
  • Waterproof pants
• Ice fishing equipment
  
• Plastic bags to put the fish in
  
• Monitoring sheet
• Pencil and eraser
• For the otoliths (optional)
  • Precise sharp knife
  • Small plastic bags
• Thermometer
• Digital scale
• Measuring tools
  • One ruler for photos
  • One precise ruler for measurements

Download the protocol and monitoring sheet here ->

ice_fishing_protocol.pdf
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Protocol (with approximate times):
    1. What are we doing today? Why? (10 minutes)

• Explaining where we are going
• Fishing fish from the lake under the ice
• Recording information about the fish, the weather and the ice
• Nature is changing, so it is important that we can compare the data in the next years

    2. Driving to the lake
    3. Explaining how ice fishing is done (10 minutes)
    4. Establishing work stations and roles (10 minutes)

• Monitoring sheet writing
• Taking photos
• Determining species
• Measuring fish
• Weighing fish
• Taking photos with ruler
• Taking otoliths (optional depending on age group and time)

    5. Ice fishing (up to 2 hours)
    6. Retrospective: what did we learn today? (5 minutes)
    7. Fish distribution between participants (10 minutes)
    8. Driving back

Monitoring sheet