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Striper Tracker Collaborative Activity
Once a week the students should be answering YES or NO to the following questions about their fish’s movements over a one week period. Please have your students use the following map of the study area when answering these questions.

Study Questions

1. Was your fish in the inlet area? (hydrophones 1-4)
2. Was your fish in the Great Bay area? (hydrophones 5 or 13)
3. Was your fish in the lower river? (hydrophones 6-9)
4. Was your fish upriver? (hydrophone 10 or 11)
5. Had your fish been out of the study areas and enter any of the study area (Great Bay/Mullica River to Hydrophone #11) during this period?
6. Did your fish leave the study area (Great Bay/Mullica River to Hydrophone #11) during this period?

The student’s answers and the name of the striped bass that they are recording the movements of should be recorded on the data logging worksheet . Each week, they can submit their data to us via the data submission section of this site and their results will subsequently be posted.

Optionally, if your students are interested, they may follow the movements of more than the striped bass that has been adopted by the classroom. It may be interesting for the students to compare the movements of their striped bass with other bass that are being “tracked” by the system. They may also report on this data by answering the same series of questions and by providing the bass’ name.

Example Log Sheet

(Click here for a PDF of the data logging worksheet)

Below is an example of the how you students would report data based on the movements of a striped bass that has been part of the striper tracker program for multiple seasons (“Mr. Noodles”).

His profile of movement throughout the Striper Tracker system can be found at:
http://www.stripertracker.org/cgi-bin/search.cgi?id=f31&view=fish

Based on the record of Mr. Noodles’ movements in the fall of 2003, the following data would be submitted to the collaborative project website.

Looking further into the data, Mr. Noodles left the Mullica River/ Great Bay area on or around December 3rd 2003, but returned to the area on April 28th, 2004 as he came through the inlet, traveled up to the lower river and back into the inlet area during the month of May.