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Aaron Penney, Fisheries Program, discusses the Cryo-Preservation project in the Nez Perce Fisheries Program Item Info

In research we have a cryo preservation program. During the fall or late summer when spring chinook are spawning we have biologists that go out and collect male salmon gametes. They actually capture male salmon in the stream, take sperm from them and then hire a pilot to fly into the backcountry airstrips where we are conducting our work. They fly the gametes, which are on ice, to Moscow, to UI and WSU. These gametes are stored with liquid nitrogen so we actually have our own sperm bank containing native salmon genetics. We actually have those stored for future purposes if the declining salmon runs get really bad we have these to fall back on. That is one big part of our research program, the cryo preservation project.

Title:
Aaron Penney, Fisheries Program, discusses the Cryo-Preservation project in the Nez Perce Fisheries Program
Date Created:
2002-01
Description:
Aaron Penney, Fisheries Program, discusses the Cryo-Preservation project in the Nez Perce Fisheries Program. (Interviewed by Josiah Pinkham in January 2002)
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"Aaron Penney, Fisheries Program, discusses the Cryo-Preservation project in the Nez Perce Fisheries Program", Nimíipuu L3, Center for Digital Inquiry and Learning (CDIL)
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https://cdil.lib.uidaho.edu/nimiipuu-l3/items/nimiipuu-l3-166.html
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