I have finally made it back to work, i was told i'd be hired back on March 1. Thirty Seven days late, i guess that is ok. I am still not officially on the pay-roll, but i will be getting paid, one day i hope.
Today i learned how to clean a raceway. Not like at the Indy 500. A raceway is where we are keeping our baby Coho Salmon at the nearby hatchery. I think we have some five raceways with about 50,000 Coho in each. Cleaning the raceway is like skimming the bottom of a pool with a big long brush. All i am really doing is brushing the bottom of the concrete raceway, stirring up silt off the bottom so that it may flow out as the top water flows out. Today we also emptied one of the raceways and transported the 50,000 Coho to their new homes in the 'Twisp Ponds' four ponds located not far up the Twisp River Rd. in Twisp, WA. Using a big pump we vacumed up all the fish and dumped them into a big tanker truck, the truck drove to the ponds and we hooked up a big hose and dumped them on into the pond. I think my days will consist of cleaning the raceways and feeding the fish, easy enough.
I was surprised to drive over the hill and into 70 degree weather with sunny skies, but i am not complaining.
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