Fish Air Drop
Fish Air Drop
Clip: 425399_1_1
Year Shot: 1967
(Actual Year)
Audio: Yes
Video: B/W
Tape Master: 1765
Original Film: 040-085-07
HD: N/A
Location: Lake Powell, Arizona
Timecode: 00:32:07 - 00:32:46
Fish Air Drop 400,000 rainbow trout rain down into Lake Powell, Arizona, in the first known successful fish airdrop. It's a new way to stocking remote waters and 95% of the trout survive the fall." MSs laborers scooping fish from a tank with a net, placing them into a container, passing the container to other workers; the fish are emptied into a large holding tank aboard an airplane. Over the shoulder MS pilot manning controls (yoke) of airplane in cockpit. Aerial shot of a dam and pass bridge spanning across deep canyon. Aerial shot of upstream reservoir. Low angle shot airplane in flight, spewing water (trout) from back. LSs fish hitting water, and in doing so, make splashes similar in appear those of raindrops.