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Plymouth Students Raise Salmon
Submitted by Toni Linde

 Mrs. Johnson’s 5th and 6th grade class and Mrs. Linde’s 1st and 2nd graders went to the Comanche Fish Hatchery in November to learn about salmon so they would be ready to hatch salmon eggs right in the classroom in January! Now that the eggs have hatched and are growing fast, they will be releasing the Salmon fry back into the Mokelumne River the middle of March so the fry can continue on their journey to the ocean. The project has been sponsored by supported by Stewardship Through Education, LLC and the local Amador Fly Fishing Club.

In Mrs. Johnson’s class-room, the Fly Fishing Club set up a specially designed fish tank so that the Salmon eggs would be in a controlled environment and the students could watch the changes as they happened. They have been able to see the development that most people will never get to see in the wild. Adults are having as much fun watching the Salmon develop as the kids are!

The project is also being done in Kelsi Himmel’s class at Argonaut High School and Carella Herberger’s class at Ione Elementary School here in Amador County and Calaveras County has several classrooms raising the Salmon as well.

By teaching the developmental stages and the many enemies that fish have during each of those stages, including pollution, it is hoped that the kids will learn how to take care of our environment to protect wildlife such as the Salmon. Besides getting to see the Salmon develop through many of their Life Cycle stages, the children have done a lot of Math and Writing lessons to go along with this project. They have no idea just how much learning is happening because it’s so much fun. And they don’t even mind doing the work that goes along with all of this learning!

As we push to have "No Child Left Inside" we find a community and many local opportunities readily available to help our children become stewards of the land. The children will never look at Salmon eggs the same, and hopefully, they will be the ones that protect our environment, now and in the future.

Toni Linde, Plymouth Elementary School, Plymouth, CA; Bruce Peccianti, Principal, (209) 245-6912.


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