For the Adopt-a-Salmon Family program at the CP Smith School in Burlington, two fourth grade classes raised a salmon family from eggs. Five months later the one-inch fry were ready for release into Mill Brook in Jericho. OUTDOOR JOURNAL visited the school to see what the students learned from raising the fish and then attended the release, complete with ceremonial reading of poems by the students.

• Adopt-a-Salmon Program
  Nick Staats, Fisheries Biologist
  US Fish & Wildlife
  c/o Vt. Dept. of Fish & Wildlife
  111 West St.
  Essex Jct., VT 05452
  (802) 879-5679
  Nick.Staats@anrmail.anr.state.vt.us

• US Fish and Wildlife
  (search "adopt salmon")

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