Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources - DNR

Based on my interview experience at Wild Rose, the most helpful thing you can have going into a fisheries tech interview is experience. I had none in fisheries, but had other animal behavior and care experience as well as biotic and abiotic water quality testing experience. But it's difficult to ...

A fisheries technician can have many different roles, so I will focus mainly on my role, but I will also give examples of some other roles the technicians may have. My main objective was to conduct creel surveys in Ozaukee and Sheboygan counties (so I was virtually never in an office). Creel surv...

My major did not necessarily focus too heavily on my job requirements as a fisheries tech, but the skills I acquired in this major were very beneficial. For example, CES fostered my love for the environment and taught me how valuable our natural resources are - which really made me passionate abo...