Today I joined two other rangers: Jennifer and Jon, to give a program called Seining in the Sound. I did not know what seining was until I tried it. Two people have a net that has weight on the bottom, they each hold an end of the net and kind of drag it along the bottom of the sound. Then, you tip the net up to see what you "caught."
This was an awesome activity! You won't believe what we caught! We caught shrimp, hermit crabs, baby flounder, a skate, blue crab, and many small fish. The Pamlico Sound is shallow and warm, so it is like a nursery for the ocean. That means that lots of young fish live in the sound. When they are fully grown, they swim into the ocean to live as adults. After we looked at a creature in our net, we would just empty the net back into the sound so that it could swim away.
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