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Ice fishing

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
File Size: 767 kb
File Type: pdf
Download File

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
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  • Home
  • Local Nature
    • Flora and Funga >
      • Flowering plants >
        • Arctic poppy
        • Cow parsley
        • Mountain avens
        • Nootka lupin
        • Purple saxifrage
      • Non-flowering vascular plants
      • Non-vascular plants
      • Algae
      • Fungi >
        • Reindeer lichen
    • Land mammals >
      • Carnivores >
        • American mink
        • Arctic fox
        • Red fox
      • Herbivores >
        • Reindeer
        • Muskox
      • Insectivores
    • Marine mammals >
      • Seals and Bears >
        • Harbor seal
        • Polar bear
        • Ringed seal
      • Whales and Dolphins >
        • Humpback whale
        • Minke whale
        • Orca
    • Birds >
      • Birds of prey >
        • Gyrfalcon
        • Snowy owl
        • White-tailed eagle
      • Land birds >
        • Rock ptarmigan
        • Rock pigeon
        • Eurasian three-toed woodpecker
      • Passerines >
        • Common raven
        • European starling
        • Snow bunting
      • Sea birds >
        • Atlantic puffin
        • Great cormorant
        • Northern fulmar
      • Seagulls >
        • Black-legged kittiwake
        • Arctic tern
        • Arctic skua
      • Waders >
        • Eurasian oystercatcher
        • Common ringed plover
        • Purple sandpiper
      • Water birds >
        • Red-throated diver
        • Barnacle goose
        • Common eider
  • Activities
    • Beach treasure hunts
    • Ice fishing
    • Crab traps
    • Seal monitoring
    • Shore ecosystem walk
  • App
  • News
  • Publications
  • Contact us