There’s still time for high school students to sign up for BBEDC’s 2008 Camp taking place at Lake Aleknagik in lat July. Last year 19 students from nine Bristol Bay communities attended one of the three sessions scheduled for students in grades six through eleven.
Those attending the sixth grade camp last year visited Dancing Salmon Company and Peter Pan Seafoods in Dillingham, studied aquatic insects and fly fishing with hand-tied flies. Seventh and eighth graders caught, tagged and dissected salmon, learned about data collection techniques, salmon biology and the Bristol Bay watershed. High school session included a for-credit Bristol Bay ecology course taught by Dr. Todd Radenbaugh, environmental science professor at Bristol Bay Campus. Students compared two salmon spawning streams on Lake Aleknagik where three different groups compared water quality, stream substrates and biology.
Southwest Region Schools is again providing the Aleknagik school as the main facility for all three camps. Eighth thru 11th grade students, including past participants, are encouraged to apply. Contact Kyle Bellque at 907-842-4370.
Salmon Camp sponsors included the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service Togiak National Wildlife Refuge, the Alaska Department of Fish & Game's Divisions of Subsistence, Sport Fish and Commercial Fish, the University of Washington's Fisheries Research Institute, the Southwest Region School District, Dancing Salmon Company, Peter Pan Seafoods, the Univisity of Alaska Fairbanks' Bristol Bay Campus, and the Bristol Bay Area Health Corporation's Injury Prevent Program. |
