Restarting Salmon Mini Hatchery Update

[spinnerbaitking]

Hey Guys

 

On Nov 16^th I met Al at the Hatchery & he gave me a quick lesson on how to set the Salmon Egg Hatchery up for the School Program. Nov 17^th I set the Aquarium up at Teeswater Hillcrest Central School in the Grade 2-3 class, I arrived in the middle of the afternoon to kids jumping up & down hollering there here, there here, I tried to settle them down by saying I just have the Aquarium & the Eggs wouldn't be there until Friday. Not sure if you have tried setting up an Aquarium with 2 dozen extra sets of hands but I managed, everything was hooked up by 4pm & running. Since there is Chlorinated it was to sit for 24 hours or more. Friday I met Garry 2pm at the Port Elgin hatchery to pick up the Eggs, packed the eggs in a jar in the cooler with a bit of Ice & headed to Teeswater, classes were over so I signed in & headed to the class 1 of the Students saw me with a Cooler & headed out to their Mother next thing I knew there was 3 boys & a Mother in the Class asking me question & wanting to help with the Eggs, on Nov 22 at 07:44 the Teacher e-mailed & said that looks soooooo cool & that the students would be doing computer work looking up salmon, Nov 23 E-mail saying the kids have been doing research & she ordered some books from Amazon, Nov 24 1 egg hatched by 8am 3 hatched by noon & 4 by the end of the day, Nov 25 I went to the school first thing & there was about half the eggs Hatched the Teacher is very impressed & Quite excited. She was at the board office last Friday & a lot of Teachers are asking how she got involved in this program, I'm not sure what will become of that for next year, I will be stopping in during class a bit & hopefully getting some more Pictures for the club. The class has already started a Scrap book with Pictures

 

Thanx For Now Richard Elliott Jr

 

[Dozer]

Friggin' cool!

[Tom McCutcheon]

That is a real HANDS ON project. Good on ya for getting the kids interested in our outdoors. You said it best "not sure what will become of it" This is where our future biologists and outdoor scientists come from. You have hatched a few fish with your efforts but also a few minds.

 

Tom.

[Rod Caster]

Way to go teacher man! Awsome project!!!

[myot]

The kids that you are teaching are the future of the sport WAY TO GO!!!!

 

Dan

[ctranter]

Just curious, is there a hatchery program established in the TDSB or Durham SB? What a fantastic and fun way to cover life cycles curriculum before their eyes.

[I'mHooked]

That's just amazing!

 

Way to get those minds sparked; sure would've loved something like that when I was that age!

[spincast]

That is cool Richard - awesome. Those kids will remember that for ever. You just gave me an awesome idea for down here - my wife teaches 2/3 and there is a trout hatchery on Whitemans. They put, I believe it was their 2 (?) miillionth hatching in the water last year? I may have an idea on how to expand their local supporters...

Edited November 26, 2010 by spincast

[spinnerbaitking]

Here is a 49 second look at the fry hatched & swimming sort of, they lost 4 eggs before the hatch but after that everyone has survived

Enjoy Richard

[siwash]

Hey Guys

 

On Nov 16^th I met Al at the Hatchery & he gave me a quick lesson on how to set the Salmon Egg Hatchery up for the School Program. Nov 17^th I set the Aquarium up at Teeswater Hillcrest Central School in the Grade 2-3 class, I arrived in the middle of the afternoon to kids jumping up & down hollering there here, there here, I tried to settle them down by saying I just have the Aquarium & the Eggs wouldn't be there until Friday. Not sure if you have tried setting up an Aquarium with 2 dozen extra sets of hands but I managed, everything was hooked up by 4pm & running. Since there is Chlorinated it was to sit for 24 hours or more. Friday I met Garry 2pm at the Port Elgin hatchery to pick up the Eggs, packed the eggs in a jar in the cooler with a bit of Ice & headed to Teeswater, classes were over so I signed in & headed to the class 1 of the Students saw me with a Cooler & headed out to their Mother next thing I knew there was 3 boys & a Mother in the Class asking me question & wanting to help with the Eggs, on Nov 22 at 07:44 the Teacher e-mailed & said that looks soooooo cool & that the students would be doing computer work looking up salmon, Nov 23 E-mail saying the kids have been doing research & she ordered some books from Amazon, Nov 24 1 egg hatched by 8am 3 hatched by noon & 4 by the end of the day, Nov 25 I went to the school first thing & there was about half the eggs Hatched the Teacher is very impressed & Quite excited. She was at the board office last Friday & a lot of Teachers are asking how she got involved in this program, I'm not sure what will become of that for next year, I will be stopping in during class a bit & hopefully getting some more Pictures for the club. The class has already started a Scrap book with Pictures

 

Thanx For Now Richard Elliott Jr

 

 

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Great project!!

[Dondorfish]

Good on you for taking the time to do this.

It's nice to see the kids so excited and willing to learn!

 

 

Tracker (Don)

[Twocoda]

much respect to you Richard...this is truly a good thing your doing

 

i wonder if a field trip or a video of the process in a hatchery would be beneficial...( just thinking out loud )

 

hope your mortality rate stays low

 

Great on ya for your efforts!

[spinnerbaitking]

I already mentioned a tour of either Hatchery, could likely be made to the Teacher & she seems keen but Students have to be moved by Bus so she is hoping they could arrange a few stops on there trip, maybe wrap it in with delivering the salmon to the River in April

Richard

[HookNrelease]

its truly a shame that the MNR have decided to close the salmon hatchery ran by volunteers, that has seen fry size double at release time, have pen inprinting projects run sucessfully,started a night time stocking plan, looked after coho and also stock bows in the rouge, all in all a benificial programm to the Lake, all be moved down south to Normandale, were "i dont care' goverment employees are supposed to take over and move ahead, i cant wait to see or hear them when they have to do a stocking run from normandale to wellington !!!!!

 

theres always been an open door and classroom approach from the hatchery when any school has shown the interest to follow through.

 

cheers

 

ian

[spinnerbaitking]

My Camera ate the tape when I was trying to down load it so I had to splice it loosing most of the Aquarium footage but the class has been busy doing research & Decorating

Enjoy Richard