Learn what the Fish Group is up to!
These Casterlin students could probably teach you a thing or two...

This is a view of the Eel River looking upstream from the tunnel where the diversion of water to the Russian River takes place.

During the final trimester at Casterlin School, the 7th and 8th grade students were given the choice to do the regular science curriculum or focus their studies on Mainstem Eel River issues. Six of the students made the choice and spent their science peiods raising and studying salmon under the guidance of Harry and Jan Vaughn of the Salmonid Restoration Project.

The special science curriculum ended with the release of the salmon raised in the classroom into Redwood Creek (near Briceland), and a visit to Potter Valley and the Van Arsdale resevoir.

On the outing to release the young salmon, they visited the area on Redwood Drive where the adult male and female salmon are trapped and the hatchery where eggs are removed from the females and raised into fingerlings to be released later back ito Redwood Creek.

These three girls are demonstrating how the creek was fenced off to trap male and female salmon.

More pictures are coming soon!