SMALL FRY FOSTER FISH

Center Elementary School students’ salmon hatchery project culminates in Salmon River release of fishes

“What we’re able to do when we come closer to the release date, which is spring, is we can turn the water up to speed up the development or, if we need to, turn the water down to slow down the development. It’s like manipulating nature.” — fourth-grade teacher Jeremy Moore

By Cassandra Day cday@middletownpress.com @cassandrasdis on Twitter Online: For more information, visit the Connecticut River Salmon Association at CTRIVERSALMON.ORG.
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A four-month salmon hatching project led 48 fourth-graders to the Salmon River Tuesday morning, where they released the 1½-inch-long babies they had studied and fostered since December into 51-degree waters. Each child took a paper cup containing two...

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