I led the planning team to design this exhibit about fisheries

1. Fisheries Exhibit
Kentucky Department of Fish & Wildlife Resources
Salato Wildlife Education Center
Frankfort, KY

2. Summary
• I led the planning team for this permanent fisheries exhibit, which
opened August 15, 2010, at Salato Wildlife Education Center in
Frankfort Kentucky. The theme is for visitors to “Get onboard with
our team to keep Kentucky’s fish populations healthy.”
• This experiential exhibit educates visitors about the Kentucky
Department of Fish & Wildlife Resources’ efforts to be good stewards
of Kentucky’s fish and support fishing.
• Visitors take on the role of a fisheries biologist - raising, releasing and
managing fish. They also learn how the department provides
outstanding fishing opportunities for people to enjoy.
• Visitors have a photo opportunity to be the “cover story” on Kentucky
Afield, the department’s award-winning magazine.
• They are encouraged to “join our team” by purchasing a fishing
license to go fishing.

3. Visitors enter the world
of a fisheries biologist
through the mouth the
Kentucky Spotted
Bass, the state fish.

4. A happy family enjoys
the efforts of our work.
Visitors are informed
that “getting onboard
with our team” by
purchasing a fishing
license supports
healthy fish and family
fun.

5. Visitors experience the
role of a fisheries
biologist, counting fish
eggs next to a working
model of a fish egg
incubator. The video’s
host gives a guided tour
of a hatchery during the
spawning of
muskellunge.

6. Visitors enter a
hatchery during the
spawning of
muskellunge. The
mural illustrates
breeding process,
storage ponds, and
the stocking truck
releasing fish into
public lakes and
rivers.

7. A portable educator station An
is used to teach visitors interactive
how to count eggs, juvenile puzzle
fish, and estimate how teaches
many fish are required to how to
stock a ten acre pond. identify
three
popular
game fish.

8. Visitors try their hand as a fisheries biologist catching
fish off the bow of an electro-fishing boat used to survey
fish populations. A video shows biologists in action.
The
biologists
then
weigh and
measure
their
catch.

9. Visitors are informed of our efforts to keep fish thriving, how fishing is
fun for the whole family, and that they can join our team by purchasing a
fishing license at our front desk.

10. This interactive game
teaches how federal
excise tax on fishing
equipment and boat
fuel is dispensed to
the state based on the
number of fishing
licenses purchased.
A large “bobber” is
cranked up the auger,
then drops down
through the shoot,
lighting the signs as it
passes them. The
visitor then turns the
wheel deciding to buy
a license or not. This
rings a bell or buzzer.

11. The visitor then exits
the exhibit and is
given the photo
opportunity to be the
cover story of
Kentucky Afield, our
department’s award –
winning magazine.
They can pose next to
a trophy-size striped
bass.