GORE BAY—With the salmon eggs collected by members of the Gore Bay Fish and Game Club (GBFGC), two Island schools will now be able to embark on their annual micro-hatchery programs.
On October 2 members of GBFGC collected some chinook salmon eggs from the Kagawong River, with a permit having been issued by the Ministry of Natural Resources and Forestry (MNRF) from the Sudbury district, Ian Anderson, a GBFGC member said. This is done each fall for the ongoing yearly micro-hatchery programs at Charles C. McLean and Central Manitoulin public schools.
Two hundred fertilized chinook salmon eggs were given (in egg boxes) to each school and the process of hatching these eggs and rearing the emerging fry to fingerling size next spring in a Manitoulin stream has begun, said Mr. Anderson.
All students in the schools will have the opportunity to watch this process as it evolves.
“This hands-on experience will stay with these students for a lifetime and teach them the importance of our natural resources,” said Mr. Anderson.
Club members Chris Robinson, Ches Witty, Randy German, Bryan Barker and Ian Anderson participated in this year’s egg collection.
