Students from two local elementary schools on the Saanich Peninsula recently helped fill two local streams with roast salmon, and one group also took the opportunity to help clean up a stream.
Students at KELSET Elementary School in North Saanich spent Friday morning May 7th releasing young salmon in Reay Creek.
Students also received on-site training on invertebrates in streams that provide feed for young salmon, as well as a demonstration of a watershed model depicting the hydrological cycle, pollution and the watershed.
The day before, students at Keating Elementary School on Tetayut Creek in downtown Saanich released roast salmon, but not before they had cleaned up something.
Before Chris Lee released the salmon, he took his students to the creek the day before to see it, only to find a lot of pollution in the water and on the banks of the creek.
Items found included a sink, scrap metal, auto parts and a lawn mower, Lee said. "They were very concerned and about four of them came down after school that day to try to clear the creek," he said. After the salmon was released, other students joined in the cleanup.
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"They were there until 6pm," he said. "You brought all the rubbish with you."
By Friday, the size of the clean-up party had increased to 20 students, he added.
It is not known who is responsible for the contamination, but students will return to the creek to help clean up, he said.
Ian Bruce, Executive Director of the Peninsula Streams Society, attended the two release events that mark the completion of a long-term program that will allow students to experience salmon in their classrooms as it has evolved from the egg stage to the fry stage.
The company then takes the opportunity of the statement to educate students about the broader environmental context, he added. "It's a way to educate children about the life cycles of salmon and salmon," he said.
Offered for decades, the program has become a memorable part of the local curriculum.
"I keep running into adults who say, 'I don't remember anything about elementary school, but I remember it," he said.
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