Video and Shot Logs
Alligator Gar (00:12:44)
Date shot: August 2018
Date produced: 8/21/2018
Location: USFWS Baton Rouge Fish and Wildlife Conservation office, St. Catharine’s Creek NWR, Mississippi
Description: FWS researchers working with Alligator gar (Atractosteus spatula)
(Shorthand WS = wide shot, MS = medium shot, CU = close-up shot, MCU = medium close-up shot)
- MS workers in green jon boat motoring in backwater – lots of duckweed
- WS workers setting out nets in backwater
- MS FWS workers letting net out
- MCU/CU Biologist with acoustic receiver – hangs it over side of boat to read signals of fish nearby, CU computer on-board
- WS workers running net
- MCU throwing net into water
- MCU 4 workers leaning over side of boat untangling gar from net
- CU fish thrashes
- WS workers in boat with second gar floating nearby – several shots
- MCU workers untangle smaller gar
- MCU workers untangle two gar
- MS moving towards researchers untangling large gar over side of boat – several shots
- MS female biologist lifts gar out of water
- WS workers in boat with second gar floating nearby – several shots
- MS workers standing in boat untangling large gar
- MS putting gar in sling to weigh it and lifts it on-board
- WS workers bringing in net with two gar
- MCU – workers untangle big gar
- MCU – going by boat – untangling gar
- WS – untangling and releasing gar from boat – several shots
- CU – workers untangling big green gar close to camera – two shots
- WS – workers bring in large gar while standing in boat, second gar floats near boat
- CU / OTS – female biologist pulls up huge gar head with net in teeth
- MS team leaning over edge of boat close to water, releasing large gar out of water
- MS team driving gar in sling to bank for weighing
- MCU female biologist and guy in blue shirt release large gar
- UNDERWATER – CU of gar head and mouth
- UNDERWATER – PAN body of fish, several shots
- UNDERWATER – Tilt up from fish to female biologist just above water’s surface – several shots
- MCU female biologist and guy in blue shirt release second big gar
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Asian Carp Chicago 2 (00:09:54)
Date shot: May 2017
Date produced: 4/18/2018
Location: Chicago Sanitary Canal, Illinois
Description: SLO-MOTION Footage (60 fps) - USFWS scientists use electrofishing boats to find and sample invasive Asian carp
- MS FWS fisheries crew electrofishing for silver carp along shoreline, silver carp (Hypopthalmichthys molotrix) jumping out of water – several shots
- MCU many fish jumping as workers net fish
- CU Boat operator
- CU Silver Carp in boat
- WS Boat under bridge – huge school of silver carp jumps out of water all at once – GREAT SHOT!
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Bozeman Fisheries 1 (00:10:32)
Date shot: 9/30/15
Date produced: May 22, 2018
Location: Bozeman Fish Technology Center, MT
Description: USFWS scientists at work studying fish
- CU Rainbow trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss) in swim chamber (shots of head, fins, etc…)
- MS Scientist in lab coat writing down observations
- MCU female fisheries scientist in lab coat watching arctic grayling (Thymallus arcticus) in large swim chamber through window
- MS underwater of grayling in swim chamber
- MS from inside swim chamber looking at scientist from fish’s point of view
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Magna Carpa 1 (00:10:45)
Date shot: 9/6/17
Date produced: July 12, 2018
Location: Lamine River, Missouri
Description: USFWS Columbia Fisheries office workers (Missouri) prepare electrofishing boat “The Magna Carpa” for invasive Asian carp detection and sampling. Overhead shots of boat at work in river.
- Crew prepares boat for work at ramp
- Boat lowers ‘wing” nets and samples fish
- Workers measure collected fish
- More sampling shots in river
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Magna Carpa 4 (00:06:54)
Date shot: 9/6/17
Date produced: July 12, 2018
Location: Lamine River, Missouri
Description: USFWS Columbia Fisheries office workers (Missouri) prepare electrofishing boat “The Magna Carpa” for invasive Asian carp detection and sampling. Shots of boat at work from second boat.
- Crew prepares boat for work at ramp
- Boat lowers ‘wing” nets and samples fish
- View from behind as boat samples fish with jumping silver carp (Hypopthalmichthys molotrix) all around
- Side view while sampling
- Workers measure and record info
- CU silver carp in tub
- MS sampling in Missouri River
- Silver carp jumping
- Workers processing car
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Northwest Fisheries A (00:09:03)
Date: 01/13/2016
- Building with signs – Spring Creek National Fish Hatchery (NFH) with logo of U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
- Pan down to several people taking notes while standing in front of the above building
- Fishery worker standing in waterway with screen in hatchery-in front of screen are many salmon-Sockeye (Oncorhynchus nerka)
- Chute with water rushing through also many salmon
- Gold colored school bus with name Trout Lake School District No. 400. One person-adult woman exiting
- School bus-White Salmon Valley School District No. 405
- Several people, one of whom is a woman in jacket with USF logo on sleeve
- Man and woman standing in front of lake-both have fishing poles
- Same scene as No. 8 but many small boats now visible
- Young woman pouring water in large metal basin containing salmon eggs-zoom in on eggs
- Adult male working in lab wearing cap with FWS logo on it
- Two women and one man in lab-one woman holding up basin with Salmon eggs
- Adult male picking up Salmon (sockeye?) from table slicing it open and emptying eggs into large basin
- Close-up of Salmon eggs being poured into basin
- Close-up of Salmon being picked up from round table and squeezing milk from it into basin with eggs
- Round table with several Salmon
- Several people picking up basins from stacks on table
- Several people in lab-one putting Salmon on round table
- Woman on cart-driving through lab
- Close-up of Salmon eggs being poured into trays
- Close-up of man pouring Salmon eggs into trays
- Close-up of trays
- Close-up of fish head
- Woman in lab pushing fish along
- Close-up of round table with Salmon
- Young woman carrying large Salmon slicing it open and pouring into large basin
- Wide angle view of lab with many things going on
- Woman holding child and overlooking lake-background of low mountains and gray sky
- Same woman and child observing painting of Salmon with two workmen, one pouring eggs, the other milk
- Same woman and child overlooking lake with 1 shot on right-small trees
- Same woman and child walking along lake bank
- Two women using long pole and net to catch Salmon in rushing water
- Man doing same
- Close-up of fish in net
- Several nets draped in water along rushing water
- Close-up of skin of Salmon
- Other view of same
- Two Salmon fillet on grill being cooked
- Cement enclosure with many Salmon with grill door shut
- Back to smoke pit with three pieces of fish smoking
- Two young women and several people dressed in fish costumes, and in raccoon costume
- Several people dancing/walking behind native banging drum
- Scenic: waterway with several trees on shore-background of mountains and blue grey sky
- Scenic: shallow waterway with trees on shore background of angled mountains-pale blue sky
- Closer view of trees, shallow water, mountains, blue sky. Zoom out for wider angle view. Good reflections in water.
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Northwest Fisheries B (00:10:04)
Date: 01/13/2016
- Shallow water way with leaves of brush on upper right-fish can be seen swimming-zoom in for close-up of fish-Sockeye Salmon with white mold on back
- Zoom in on Sockeye Salmon (Oncorhynchus nerka)-one comes in from right side-turns around and swims parallel to other one Zoom in for closer view of head
- Follows Sockeye Salmon by panning left
- Shallow water with stones on bottom. Salmon swimming
- Aerial view of side of mountain-road below-small projection of parking lot and buildings below lower left has grass-pine trees-can see trucks on roadway
- Scenic Crescent shaped side of mountain with waterway on right, grass, brush, pine trees on left-Zoom in for view as in #6
- Scenic waterway running lower left to mid right-lower right corner is pine trees-background dark green
- Zoom in with mainly waterway, pine trees on right-mostly waterway
- Scenic: River lower left to lower right-pine tree on right lower corner-background low mountains-blue gray sky
- Zoom in to show more of side of mountain with pine trees and grass in lower right-river lower left mountains and blue sky background
- Scenic: Misty view of harbor with drawbridge-zoom out slowly for wide angle view
- Scenic: foreground in river-drawbridge-Pine tree on left blue sky with wispy white clouds background
- Scenic: Water way foreground-pine trees-mid right several mountains in background with low lying clouds-blue gray sky, Zoom in for close-up
- Zoom back out for wide angle view
- Scenic: Misty view of layers of pine trees-kite skier in waterway
- Scenic waterway-mountains-ship approaching from left
- Small boat in lower right-paddle boat enters from right, background is side of mountain
- Background is side of mountain-foreground is waterway with multiple small boats
- Fisherman holding rod-paddle boat seen faraway
- Small boat-man casting-dog next to him
- Very small boat with man fishing
- Several small b oats-paddle steamer enters from right zoom out for wide angle view
- Small boat with two men-one holding rod-the other is holding net with chinook salmon
- Several small boats
- Wide angle view of several small boats-zoom in several times for close-ups
- Single small boat-background of mountains-with low lying white clouds
- Single small boat moving left to right background mountains with low lying clouds
- Wide angle view-small boat tending net-other small boats in distance-background of base of mountains
- Close-up of two men in small boat tending net
- Zoom out for wide angle view of same
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San Marcos 1 (00:08:20)
Date shot: May 2017
Date produced: 4/26/2018
Location: San Marcos Aquatic Resources Center, Texas
Description: Underwater footage in San Marcos River, TX
- Texas wild rice plants flowing in clear water
- USFWS divers surveying for salamanders underwater
- Various panfish using rice plants
- USFWS divers amongst Texas wild rice plants
- USFWS divers working over “cream-of-wheat” springs
- USFWS divers in yellow suits working in Spring lake, TX
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San Marcos 3 (00:09:35)
Date shot: May 2017
Date produced: 4/26/2018
Location: San Marcos Aquatic Resources Center, Texas
Description: Underwater salamander footage (aquarium) and topside biologist footage
- Texas Blind Salamander – various shots, shot of a pair on rocks
- Barton Springs Salamander in rocks, in weeds
- MS Biologist at San Marcos working with native Texas wild rice in raceways
- MCU Biologist collecting seeds from Texas wild rice in San Marcos River
- CU Texas Wild rice
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Snakehead Electrofishing 1 (00:09:42)
Date shot: Oct. 25, 2012
Date produced: July 13, 2018
Location: Indian Head, MD
Description: FWS fisheries crew from Chesapeake Bay Field office sample for invasive northern snakehead fish (Channa argus) with electrofishing boat
- Crew in boat sample along shorelines, open water, aquatic weed patches for northern snakeheads. Fall scenery trees along shore. Workers weigh fish and put in livewell.
- Close-ups of northern snakeheads caught by Virginia Dept. of gamer and Inland Fisheries crew.
- CU Snakehead on measuring board.
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