In March, a team of DNR biologists set out on Liberty Reservoir to monitor its striped bass population using a specialized method called electrofishing. Electrofishing is a safe way to assess a population without causing unnecessary mortality. An electric current runs through the water and temporarily stuns nearby fish. The team collected, measured, and tagged the striped bass they encountered with a dark green Floy tag before releasing them. In addition, biologists took scale samples that can b