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Educational Projects

Salmon
in the Classroom


The Nith Salmon Board encourages schools interests in all aspects of river management - particularly the Hatchery Programme and the Enhancement Project - and in the sport of angling

The youngsters get involved in stripping eggs and hatching out fry as part of school classroom projects. School parties begin their projects by going on field trips to the river where they can see river staff electro fishing feeder streams


River staff have been working with Sanquhar Academy and Moniaive Primary school - taking pupils on field trips.


Stripping the eggs under the watchful of a river Bailliff Dunncan Thomson

The field trips with the Bailliffs involve the youngsters examining different fish species and densities in the various feeder streams.

The nursery tank in the science lab where the eggs move through to fingerling stage

     

Other educational work with youngsters includes introducing them to angling through short courses which include "safety on the river", "insect life" and fly casting". The courses are sponsored through local beats and other fishing interests.

The hatchery exercise finishes with youngsters releasing the salmon fry back into burns from where the adult fish were netted.