Missouri Conservation department gathers Capaha Park pond's fish for relocation

Nathan Gladden ~ Southeast Missourian

Tuesday, June 7, 2022

Capaha Park's fish will find a new home before the pond's dredging will start on June 13. Missouri Conservation department went through the process of electrofishing in the Capaha Park pond in order to gather up fish for relocation on Tuesday, June 7.

Missouri Conservation's Rebecca Freitas catches fish for relocation while electrofishing into the pond at Capaha Park on Tuesday. The dredging of Capaha Park's pond is expected to start around June 13. (Nathan Gladden ~ Southeast Missourian)
A net is cast out to catch fish while electrofishing in the Capaha Park pond on Tuesday. (Nathan Gladden ~ Southeast Missourian)
Missouri Conservation volunteer Sarah Brown catches a fish out of the pond while on the boat in Capaha Park on Tuesday. (Nathan Gladden ~ Southeast Missourian)
Sarah Brown plunges her net back in the water to get more fish brought up by the process of electrofishing in the pond. (Nathan Gladden ~ Southeast Missourian)

Missopuri Conservation's Fisheries Management Biologist Salvador Mondragon drives the boat while Sarah Brown and Rebecca Freitas stand on the sides to catch fish in the pond. (Nathan Gladden ~ Southeast Missourian)
A net of fish holding some of what the group had caught in the first hour of electrofishing in Capaha Park's pond. (Nathan Gladden ~ Southeast Missourian)
Salvador Mondragon holds a fresh caught fish from the time spent electrofishing in the pond. (Nathan Gladden ~ Southeast Missourian)
Salvador Mondragon poses with one of the freshly caught fish, found in their time of electrofishing Capaha Park's pond on Tuesday. (Nathan Gladden ~ Southeast Missourian)