WLACE River Ecosystem

WLACE River Ecosystem

Monday, February 7, 2011

Salmon Fry 2/7/2011

Salmon Fry
The WLACE salmon have developed greatly in the past few weeks. So now all the salmon have absorbed the remains of the nutrients from their yolk  sac. We call that buttoning up. And from what I have learned we now call them fry. In the wild salmon will swim to catch and gather food. They eat bugs like insects and decaying animals that drift downstream.  In the classroom we feed the fish several times a day teaching the fry to eat from the surface. The levels of the tests we run on the water are a little high today, so therefore we have to watch them. One thing I have noticed is that the fish are swimming a lot more lately. I am very excited to see how everything turns out ,they are very interesting to watch!!!!!!
Written by Alyssa Hanusosky

Salmon Fry