Fisheries Facilities and Equipment at the Kansas Cooperative 

Fish and Wildlife Research Unit

The Kansas Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit is on the top floor of Leasure Hall, where we have office and laboratory space for 12-15 students and a visiting scientist.  The fisheries equipment includes several boats, nets, several backpack electrofishing units, barge electrofishing unit, etc. that are housed off campus.  Fisheries has over six vehicles used for research, and several new vehicles used for meeting travel.  We also have research equipment for various laboratory-related uses.  This includes an image analysis system, two low-speed isomet saws for sectioning bony structures, a separate lab of fish ageing, a mulitmedia room with high-speed document scanner used for scanning up to 500-page documents in seconds, and a data backup system.  

Office space for graduate students typically is part of a larger office housing from 1-3 students in fisheries.

Laboratory equipment

Vehicles

Boats

Laboratory equipment

Our laboratory has all the essential equipment needed for age and growth analysis, diet, invertebrate analysis, and some water chemistry analyses.  In addition, the lab has a data backup system, double sided laser printer, color large-format printer, and its own network.  This way all computers are automatically backed up up nightly. 

Fish lab	Fish Lab	Fish Ageing Lab
Image analysis system	Multimedia Room	Fisheries server
		Data backup system
	We also have several backpack electrofishers as well as numerous nets, seines, trawls, GPS and PDAs, and other field equipment

Vehicles

We have reliable vehicles for field and meeting travel.  In general, each studnet is assigned their own vehicle for their research.  

Boats

The Fish and Wildlife Research Unit at Kansas State has several boats used for large river and reservoir sampling to small ponds and streams.  We have three electrofishing boats: one 17-foot boat used for large reservoirs, and custom made 16 foot Clark boat for shallow rivers, and 15-foot jon for shallow water and small ponds.  In addition the Clark boat has a removable raling that can be used for trawling and netting.  Below are pictures of some of our boats.

1994 Coeffelt 17-foot electrofishing  boat with 75 hp Mercury		2008 Clark 16 ft boat with 40 hp 4-stroke rigged for electrofishing and trawling
1998 Kann welded boat with  50 hp Mercury 4-stroke		2005 Alumacraft welded jon  with 25 hp 4-stroke

Other boats:

15 foot Alumacraft jon with 15 hp Mercury rigged for electrofishing

14 foot Lowe jon with 15 hp Mercury

2-17 foot square stern canoe with a 3 hp outboards