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CT Students Raise Salmon in Classroom

By Tom Richardson on May 9th, 2012

New Haven Register: Students from Foote School in New Haven released Atlantic salmon fry into the Connecticut River Watershed Friday at the Salmon River. They had raised the salmon from eggs in their classrooms.

The 6th- and 9th-graders spent the day at the Salmon River State Forest, learning from and teaching one another about various issues affecting water quality and aspects of Atlantic salmon history specific to what they have been studying in the classroom, according to a Foote School press release.

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Tom Richardson is the director and host of New England Boating. Before that he served as the editor of Northeast Boating from 2005 to 2009, and as managing editor of Salt Water Sportsman magazine from 1995 to 2004. He lives, boats and fishes in southeastern Massachusetts with his wife and three kids.