The Adopt-A Salmon-Family is an exciting and innovative new program that teaches school children about the importance of fish to our society and our natural environment. Adopt-A-Salmon-Family informs students about habitat, biodiversity, life, changes and adaptation, freshwater ecology, sustainability, the recreational fishery, and stewardship. Using a hands on approach, Adopt-A-Salmon-Family also enhances the development of student's communication and observation skills, improves their accuracy in measurement and their understanding of number relations, teaches the use of charts and tables and the importance of recording and interpreting data. These valuable lessons will help guide our youth as they become the guardians of our natural resources. Students in the lakes region schools will be raising and releasing landlocked salmon. Students will go the hatchery in November and see the eggs harvested from the brood stock.The eggs will be grown to the eyed-up stage at the hatchery. The students will recieve their salmon in February. The students will raise the salmon in refrigerated tanks in their classrooms. When the salmon hatch they are known as sac fry and remain almost buried in the gravel. When they rise from the gravel they will be released in the Sebago watershed. Landlocked salmon are native to the Sebago watershed. Roberta Hill-Burdett LEA's Environmental Education Program Director, will be serving as regional coordinator for the Adopt-A-Salmon-Family program in the Sebago Lake watershed. The LEA will provide technical assistance and resources for participating teachers and will serve as liaison between the schools and the Maine Department of Inland Fisheries. The LEA will also provide regularly scheduled workshops from the Adopt-A-Salmon-Family curriculum and LEA's Living Connections Watershed Education Curriculum for the students from Crooked River Elementary school, The Harrison Elementary School, the Stevens Brook School and the Waterford Memorial Elementary School.

Great Salmon Links Friends of the Kennebec Salmon
The Salmon Page, (Tons of Links!!!)
Salmon Projects At Other Schools