Fisheries Facilities and Equipment at the Kansas Cooperative
Fish and Wildlife Research Unit
The Kansas Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit is located 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. In addition, fisheries has seven vehicles used for research purposes. In the laboratory, we have research equipment for various laboratory-related uses. This includes an image analysis system, two low-speed isomet saw for sectioning bony structures, 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 a cubicle or part of a small office.
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, double sided color large-format printer, and own network with all fisheries student and lab computers. This way all computers are automatically backed up up nightly.
| Fish lab | Fish Lab | Fish lab with isomet saws |
| Image analysis system | High-speed scanner | Fisheries server |
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| We also have several backpack electrofishers as well as numerous nets, seines, trawls, and other field equipment |
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Most of our vehicles have been given to us from other agencies. We thank Ouray National Wildlife Refuge (Utah), Tishomingo National Wildlife Refuge (Oklahoma), Kirwin National Wildlife Refuge (Kansas), and The US Fish and Wildlife Service (Manhattan, Kansas and Pinetop, Arizona) for generously providing their extra vehicles. Although usually not new, these vehicles are reliable and work well for field use.
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1997 Ford F250 Superduty XCab |
2007 Chevorlet 2500HD Extended cab |
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1994 Ford F150 XCab |
1997 Ford F150 Supercab
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1996 Jeep Cherokee |
1994 Ford F250 Superduty
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1990 Dodge 3/4 ton 4 x 4 "Big Whitie" |
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 two Coeffelt electrofishing boats: one 17-foot boat used for large reservoirs and the Missouri River and a 15-foot jon rigged for electrofishing. We have a 17-foot Kann boat, and a 14-foot jon with a 20 hp jet drive for working in the shallow, plains rivers. Details and pictures of some of our boats are below.
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Coeffelt 17-foot electrofishing boat with 75 hp Mercury |
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Kann welded boat with 50 hp Mercury 4-stroke |
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2005 Alumacraft welded jon with 20 hp jet drive |
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Other boats:
15 foot Alumacraft jon with 15 hp Mercury rigged for electrofishing
14 foot Lowe jon with 15 hp Mercury
10 foot jon
17 foot square stern canoe with a 3 hp outboard