SHEN Fish Monitoring SOP 14: Equipment Cleaning Procedures and Practices for Biosecurity, Version 1.0
Wofford JE and Demarest ED. 2018. SHEN Fish Monitoring SOP 14: Equipment Cleaning Procedures and Practices for Biosecurity, Version 1.0
This document gives instructions for disinfecting gear that has come in contact with stream water and also provides some common sense measures to maintain clean gear in the field. This SOP was developed in direct response to increasing concern regarding the spread of Didymosphenia geminate (didymo) but pertains to other aquatic exotic species as well. Care must be taken to prohibit poor equipment hygiene, which can transfer exotics quickly as individuals/crews move between water bodies in the park. Additional care should be taken when gear is used outside park boundaries and then returned for use in the park. There are seven known didymo populations within 100 miles of Shenandoah National Park. Four of those are in free flowing streams (West Virginia, Maryland, and Virginia) and three are in tailwater systems (Virginia, Maryland). This SOP covers Fish Population Monitoring as well as Aquatic Macroinvertebrate monitoring and therefore, certain gear references may be irrelevant to any one particular protocol. Required equipment includes: 20 gallon muck buckets, buckets with lids, 30x26” trays, Dawn dish detergent, salt, water, hose, freezer, and drying rack.
- Type
- Standard Operating Procedure
- Authors
- Wofford, John; Demarest, E.
- Date of Issue
- 2018-05
- Units
- SHEN
- Keywords
- Fish, SHEN, SOP
- Subjects
- Ecological Framework: Biological Integrity | Focal Species or Communities | Fishes