Contact:
Samantha Oslund
Assistant Area Management Biologist
Phone: 907-746-6300

The Alaska Department of Fish and Game and the Matanuska-Susitna School District will be starting this year’s school classroom salmon egg incubation projects with a series of coho (silver) salmon egg-takes at Spring Creek, a tributary of Wasilla Creek.

Mat-Su area school egg-takes will take place from 10:00 AM to 2:00 PM on Tuesday, September 29, and 10:00 AM to Noon on Wednesday, September 30.  Classes will arrive throughout these two days to participate and learn about the salmon spawning and fertilization process. Over 600 students from nine schools will attend this year’s egg-takes.  The children will then take up to 300 eggs back to their classroom to watch the eggs develop and hatch. The purpose of the incubation program is to teach the students about the life cycle, biology, habitat requirements, and anatomy of these important fish. The fry from these incubation projects will be released in the spring at Matanuska Lake.

All of the egg-takes will occur at Spring Creek located off the Glenn Highway, Mile Post 36.5 Old Matanuska Road.