well, as of right now, we are doing practice runs with my program with just capturing, running measurements and recording specific data (total length, weight, specific markings, color patterns, location) to basically get a sense of the capture/release of this order. (before we start marking them with the more expensive equipment... lol) and my professors and the park rangers are pretty in depth about what we are to do... but I don't believe they are that experienced with these creatures as we are meant to believe... at least not recently. That is why i am asking for advice from experts on this subject... I would like to have this new experience be as "painless" as possible. lol.