Nineteen
students from nine Bristol Bay communities attended
BBEDC’s 2007 Salmon Camp in July and August.
Three sessions were offered, one for sixth graders,
one for seven through eighth graders, and another for
high school students.
Students attending the sixth grade camp visited Dancing
Salmon Company and Peter Pan Seafoods in Dillingham, studied
aquatic insects and tried
fly fishing with hand-tied flies.
Seventh
and eighth graders caught, tagged and dissected salmon,
learned about data collection techniques, salmon biology
and the Bristol Bay watershed.
The
high school session included a for-credit Bristol Bay
ecology course taught by Dr. Todd Radenbaugh, environmental
science professor at Bristol Bay Campus. Students compared two salmon spawning streams on Lake Aleknagik
where three different groups compared water quality,
stream substrates (including life forms) and the streams’
biology.
Both
older groups presented their findings in BBEDC’s Board
Room.
Students
participating were from Iliamna, Newhalen, Koliganek,
Manokotak, Port Heiden, Pilot Point, Aleknagik, King
Salmon and Dillingham.
Salmon
Camp sponsors included the U.S. Fish & Wildlife
Service Togiak National Wildlife Refuge, the Alaska
Department of Fish & Game's Divisions of Subsistence,
Sport Fish and Commercial Fish, the University of Washington's
Fisheries Research Institute, the Southwest Region School
District, Dancing Salmon Company, Peter Pan Seafoods,
the Univisity of Alaska Fairbanks' Bristol Bay Campus,
and the Bristol Bay Area Health Corporation's Injury
Prevent Program. |
