Nov 22
CLASS OF 2020 STARTS HERE – Lake Superior State University student Cassidy Fritts sizes up a female Atlantic salmon netted for science and future anglers on the Upper Great Lakes. Students, staff, and volunteers with LSSU’s Center for Freshwater Research and Education were netting female and male Atlantics from the St. Marys River on Oct. 31 for eggs and milt. This particular fish will provide eggs for fertilization in LSSU’s riverfront hatchery for a generation of Atlantics released during the summer of 2020. Eggs are to fertilized the second week of November. Each year the Sault Ste. Marie, Mich., hatchery raises about 25,000 Atlantic salmon for a regional fishery that’s known the world over. Fritts is a fisheries and wildlife management sophomore from Ludington, Mich. (LSSU/John Shibley)
SALMON CLASS OF 2020 – Lake Superior State University students Josh Dykema (left) and Derek Hartline – along with LSSU President Rodney Hanley (center) – size up a male Atlantic salmon netted for science and future anglers on the Upper Great Lakes. Students, staff, and volunteers with LSSU’s Center for Freshwater Research and Education were netting female and male Atlantics from the St. Marys River on Oct. 31 for eggs and milt. This fish’s milt will fertilize eggs the second week of November in LSSU’s riverfront hatchery to spawn Atlantics to be released during the summer of 2020. Each year the Sault Ste. Marie, Mich., hatchery releases up to 25,000 Atlantic salmon, sustaining a regional fishery that’s known the world over. Dykema, from Holland, Mich., is a parks and recreation major who is also earning an associate’s degree in natural resources technology. Hartline, from Tustin, Mich., is studying fisheries and wildlife management. (LSSU Photo)