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Radiology Students Help U.S. Fish and Wildlife Identify Fish

10.11.2010

Students from the Radiologic Science program at Oregon Institute of Technology recently x-rayed approximately 650 juvenile sucker fish from the Upper Klamath Lake for identification purposes. The students assisted the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service by imaging the young fish in the Digital Mammography Unit in the Martha Anne Dow Center for Health Professions.

According to fishery biologists from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, there are three species of sucker fish in the lake and one of the species is endangered. Biologists identify the species of the sucker fish by counting the number of vertebrae. This is the third year students at OIT have imaged the fish.

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