Derek Johnson Email & Phone Number

North Bend, Washington, United States

Juneau, AK

• Preparing hatchery for egg harvest, including cleaning and repair of incubator trays
• Help with egg take of Chum, Coho and Chinook Salmon
• Assisted with Sockeye Salmon egg take at Port Snettisham State Fish H

Riverdale, ND

• Supported the mission of this federal hatchery in restoring the endangered pallid sturgeon, and meeting fish stocking requests from several states, providing in excess of 10 million native fish annually for restoration.
• Applied Elastomer tags and removed scutes from Pallid Sturgeon.
• Applied Coded Wire tags and removed adipose fin from Chinook Salmon.
• Assisted with various aspects of raising the variety of fish grown in the hatchery, including: o Chinook Salmon to stock in Lake Sakakawea. o Rainbow Trout and Brown Trout. o Walleye and Northern Pike to fingerlings.

Moravia, IA

• Helped raise Phase 1 – 3 Walleye, as well as Catfish
• Zebra Mussel sampling
• Basic equipment and property maintenance

Ames, IA

• Did water quality test twice a week and monitored the overall health of the fish daily by measuring PH, DO and temperature with a water meter.
• Worked with hydroponic and aquaponic systems raising vegetables.
• Completely restarted a system by removing all the plants, removing substrate so it could be sterilized, also sterilized the fish tanks using Virkon and starting new plants to replace the old ones.

Spirit Lake, IA

• Participated in educating people about Aquatic Invasive Species, like Eurasian Water milfoil, Asian Carp and Zebra Mussels.
• Hatchery work including vegetation sampling, monitoring boats for aquatic invasive species, young of the year fish sampling, scraping walleye spins for age, and going to different lakes in the area to look for the.
• Worked with other interns, as well as other hatchery staff.

Bachelor’S Degree, Animal Ecology With A Focus On Fisheries

Associate’S Degree, Environmental Science