Day Two For The Fishies!

The view of the outdoor raceways from outside the fencing

My second day was even more fun than the first! I got trained on Steelhead and spent the day feeding them and sweeping out their raceways. The majority of the day was dedicated to slinging pounds and pounds of feed into the big outdoor raceways where the Steelhead live. You wouldn't think it, but there truly is a technique to slinging feed out into the water. You have to make sure that the feed doesn't get too clumped up in one spot so that more fish can access each scoop that gets thrown out to them, and you have to watch how much the fish are eating and adjust your scoop sizes as needed. Sweeping the raceways was pretty easy- you just push the fish poop down the lanes with these super long brooms. At the end of the day we weighed the feed that didn't get fed out and then weighed out feed for tomorrow.
It was freezing outside, and it rained a bit towards the end, but I had a blast working and chatting with my new co-workers!

Looking down the raceway from the bridge. The bridge moves back and forth along the raceways to allow you to feed and clean along the entire thing.

Looking behind the bridge at the rest of the raceway