Community ClicksSEQUIM — The Dungeness River Audubon Center at Railroad Bridge Park has been selected to be a Salmon in the Classroom site by the state Department of Fish and Wildlife.
The project is sponsored by Puget Sound Anglers, a sport fishing group.
Public viewing and the participation of Sequim Middle School students is included in the project.
The River Center received several hundred coho salmon eggs from the Hurd Creek fish hatchery, located north of Woodcock Road on the east side of the Dungeness River.
The eggs were removed from adult coho returning to spawn at the Dungeness hatchery in October 2009.
If all goes as planned, the eggs will hatch within a few weeks, and the young salmon will be ready to return to the river later in the spring.
Other fish will be released during late spring and summer as they grow.
Some of the fish will be released back to the Dungeness River by sixth-graders from Sequim Middle School as part of an education program sponsored by a National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration B-WET grant to the River Center.
The public also may participate in releasing the fish when they are ready.
The River Center is located at 2151 W. Hendrickson Road.
For more information about the project, visit www.dungenessrivercenter.org or phone 360-681-4076.
