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Subject 1: (Interview). Subtitle: Barry Chernoff, Herman Kihn. Timecode In: 00:01:37. Timecode out: 00:58:16. Notes: Ichthyology. Subject 2: Mexican black howler monkey (Alouatta pigra). Timecode In: 01:04:34. Timecode out: 01:05:00. Subject 3: Mexican black howler monkey (Alouatta pigra). Timecode In: 01:11:03. Timecode out: 01:17:53. Subject 4: (Interview). Subtitle: Barry Chernoff. Timecode In: 01:18:02. Timecode out: 01:44:22. Notes: Ichthyology; AquaRAP and field work. Habitat: River. Equipment Notes: Stereo=2: 1=L, 2=R; Decoded MS stereo; Split track. NPR/NGS RADIO EXPEDITIONS SHOW: Guatemala DAT #5 (S)=speaking in Spanish Barry Chernoff (BC) Herman A. Kihn (H) Chris Joyce (CJ) Linda Mack (LM) Motor, on boat, moving equipment. Catching Fish: sounds of working equipment, boat creaking, and water throughout :50 LM: pulling up the first net. 1:37 BC: Nnno, okay,okay, no, no,no okay¿leave the nets¿ here we go¿oh, very deadly. This is what a small Petenia and it¿s over here, this is what from last year¿yeah a yearling. Okay, yeah¿but it¿ll be okay. 3:15 BC: Don¿t pull in, pull back, that¿s it¿there¿s a big tree it¿s drifted into a big tree and its fishing okay, I have it. no nothing, daytime¿s not very productive. 4:05 BC: From four to six in the morning¿ 4:31 Back Phil, just a little bit! 4:48 BC: Just uh, a little bit more Phil, just poke off, just a little at a time¿ Moving something on board, water sounds. 5:54 BC: Back, Phil, back. 6:35 BC: This is uh, see this hole here, this is almost three foot diameter a crocodile went through that hole. (how can you tell) Well they get caught, they get attracted by a fish in the net and they make this very very characteristic hole that looks like a truck drove through your net. 7:33 If you can keep the back end¿ 7:52 anything? No there¿s a trunk? down there¿ 8:44 CJ: One fish? 8:45 BC: One fish CJ: Well what is it? 8:47 BC: This is a yearling Petenia, the one that people were fishing the other day on hook and line and gets quite large and is a big food fish, this is the one that uh you caught the orange form of and can swing its jaw out. It¿s a juvenile so we¿ll study what types of conditions its in and how its growing up to uh certain types of statistics that the fisheries biologists have gathered on this species. So its a valuable catch, but um these types of nets are not very productive in the daytime. 9:38 CJ: Got a leech on it. 9:40 BC: yeah, got a leech on it too. Moving things around on boat 9:52 CJ: ohh, its spongy isn¿t it? 9:54 BC: It¿s a morel isn¿t it? yeah, its a mixture of mud and this limestone bottom mixed together in kind of like an oatmeal. 10:09 --CJ: it¿s¿ not like sediment like Chesapeake bay mud 10:14 BC: No, no, there is some like that. But you see from the hills that we pass on the way from the station that this is a lot of limestone based here and a lot of carsed 10:35 You know you can see it go way down. And uh- 10:45 you¿re going to go down to the other side 10:50 --yeah we¿re going down to the other net which I don¿t think has a good chance of - --CJ: water or alcohol? BC: This is uh formalin. 11:02 BC: So that¿s a that¿s uh valuable specimen, we don¿t usually get them that small which is good and that¿s part of the way of looking at the health of the region is to see whether the diff ages of the fish are healthy. motor picks up to 11:35 11:40 BC:I can¿t believe the mud is only this much over my shoes CJ: explain what you are going to be doing now. 11:47 BC: okay we are going to use this small hand net this small seine, it has a mesh about an eighth of an inch and its got floats on one side and lead on another. And this is about six feet long and its about three feet deep and what we¿re going to do is keep t... (Notes truncated)
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- Mexican black howler monkey Alouatta pigra
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- Cataloged
- 3 Sep 2009 - Ben Brotman
- Digitized
- 3 Sep 2009 - Ben Brotman
- Edited
- 3 Sep 2009 - Ben Brotman