Contact:
Fritz Kraus
Anchorage Area Aquatic Education Biologist
Phone: 267-2265 or 441-8837

The Alaska Department of Fish and Game Aquatic Education Program and the Anchorage School District will be starting this year’s school “Salmon in the Classroom” projects with a series of silver (coho) salmon egg-takes at Campbell Creek in Anchorage, September 25 through  September 30, 2006.

Daily schedules are:

9:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m., Mon., Sept. 25, and Tues., Sept. 26

9:30 a.m. - 2:45 p.m., Wed., Sept. 27 through Fri., Sept. 29 

The best photo opportunities are usually from 9:30 to 10:30 each day, when the salmon are caught in seine nets by the first group of students.

Another egg-take will be held on Saturday, September 30, at 10:00 a.m., for teachers who cannot attend with their classes.  The general public may also attend this egg-take.

All of the egg-takes will occur in Campbell Creek where Folker Street (south of Tudor Road) ends at Campbell Creek. 

Sixty-five Anchorage area schools are sending over 2,500 students to this event, which is designed to teach students about the life cycle, biology, habitat requirements and anatomy of salmon, Alaska’s most important fish.  Each class takes up to 500 eggs for its aquarium, then students observe the developing salmon and record their observations. When the salmon reach the fry stage, sometime in May, the students then release the fish into Taku-Campbell Lake.