Fourth Grade Students at Braeside School have been raising Rainbow Trout since Thanksgiving as part of a program called Trout in the Classroom which is sponsored by Trout Unlimited.
They started with eggs provided by the IDNR and will soon release the fish to the stream at Ravine Drive.
Salmonids such as Rainbow Trout imprint on their "natal" stream and may return to it after they become adults (about three years). So we hope the baby trout we release will move out to Lake Michigan and then migrate back to Ravine Drive. We are going to tag the fish and some HPHS students are helping us figure out how to record the tags and when and where any tagged fish eventually go.
LIFE CYCLE OF TROUT
Braeside School Fourth Grade 2012
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