Restarting Salmon Mini Hatchery UPDATE

[Richard Elliott Jr]

Hey Guys

On Nov 16th 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 17th 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 J

[Glen Pickering]

This is awesome Richard. Is there a manual on how to set this up? This would be a great thing to set up in other schools and I have a few contacts that could make it happen.

[pete Bartonek]

Pretty cool stuff Richard. Kudos to you for getting the kids involved and donating all your time!
A nice youth and conservation oriented project.
Pete

[Richard Elliott Jr]

Thanx Guys
Hey Glen
I tried to e-mail you the manual let me know if you got it or not, with there being more months out of the year that you can't fish for Bass than you can, I thought this would be a good time filler.
Richard
archery@tnt21.com

[Mike Madore]

Awesome stuff Richard. It's great to see individuals step up to the plate for a great cause because our MNR has had it's head stuffed for years now when it comes to our natural resources. More fault of our Federal and Provincial government who realy call the shots. This fall I,ve fished the saugeen like I have for nearly 30 yrs and I was just overwhelmed at the amazing numbers of fish that are in that river the past couple of years, and it's all due to the Ontario steelheaders and volunteers that put forth there time and effort to keep this fishery a great one that it is. I,ve seen some of my favorite rivers take a kicking in the numbers in the last 5-10 yrs because of neglect. It's a frigin shame it's come to what it has and I don't see it getting any better in the future unless guys like yourself and others arise to the occassion and take action for ourselves. It's especially wonderful to see the next generation wanting to get involved. Maybe with possitive minds there is hope for the future or we will be playing black bass on playstation when we want to go fishing but it's not quite the same.

Cheers buddy and keep up the good work
Mike...

[louis milo]

Having a hatchery that has raised and stocked millions of fish Richard any help I can offer let me know

[Richard Elliott Jr]

Just a quick Video after they all hatched
Richard

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v1J5L_ND22s