diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index f11168501c90b6c80d9b0c2bc51d44480896c9a0..1feda591e54e241a26f75ad56dfa8d1195dd183b 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -37,6 +37,7 @@
 * Change ambiguous species ci to wrong species
 * Add test for DNAnexus env
 * Add test for AWS env
+* Fix fetch fastq count
 
 *Known Bugs*
 * Override params (inputBag, fastq, species) aren't checked for integrity
@@ -44,7 +45,7 @@
 * Check for outputBag in hatrac doesn't check for any uploaded by chaise
 * CI container cache will fail if cache folder is not owned by CI runner user
 * CI container cache will not error if container failed to pull
-* CI (container cache, version collection, and unit tests) will not work correctly if containers reffered to in nextflow.config aren't prefixed perfectly with: "container = "
+* CI (container cache, version collection, and unit tests) will not work correctly if containers referred to in nextflow.config aren't prefixed perfectly with: "container = "
   * also, it is assumed that the containers are on dockerhub and don't have the "docker://" prefix
 
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diff --git a/rna-seq.nf b/rna-seq.nf
index 0c58e21c3c4c2a37f1aa330d61e6c09a316f8767..4df4c6ffc893a91c925c23b453fbda61a3430134 100644
--- a/rna-seq.nf
+++ b/rna-seq.nf
@@ -269,7 +269,8 @@ process getData {
     then
       echo -e "LOG: fetching replicate bdbag" >> ${repRID}.getData.log
       fastqCount=\$(sh ${script_bdbagFetch} \${replicate::-13} ${repRID})
-      echo -e "LOG: fetched" >> ${repRID}.getData.log
+      fastqCount=\$(echo \${fastqCount} | tail -n1)
+      echo -e "LOG: \${fastqCount} fastqs fetched" >> ${repRID}.getData.log
     else
       echo -e "LOG: fastq override detected, not fetching fastqs" >> ${repRID}.getData.log
       fastqCount="0"