keeping the legacy of wild Atlantic salmon alive in Western New England
Last week, the CT DEEP stocked the Naugatuck and Shetucket Rivers with 3+ year fresh, feisty, non spawned Atlantic Salmon as part of their Connecticut Atlantic Salmon Legacy Program. We have one angler reporting catching and releasing 7 beautiful silver leapers since Tuesday. The week before, Mt Tom Pond and Crystal Lake were stocked with 2+…
CT Aquatic Resources Education CARE will introduce you, your family, and friends to the wonders of water, fish, and fishing. State certified Instructors pass along information and expertise they’ve gained while angling in local waters for many years. Demonstrations and activities make learning fun for adults and kids alike. Most classes include a fishing trip…
Below is an email from Greg Sharp, an environmental attorney with the Hartford law firm of Murtha Cullina. Greg is chairman of the CT Fishery Advisory Council and led the effort to keep Kensington Hatchery in the state budget for the next two years. Greg said to Jim Carroll that contacts from teachers and students…
Our CRSA 40th annual dinner event is tentatively set for January 16, 2016 at the Chowder Pot Restaurant in Hartford.
To All CRSA Teachers: We are now open for Registration for the 2015-16 school program year. I hope that our veteran schools will join us again, and we look forward to welcoming new schools. Teachers register here. If you are a current teacher, responsible for one or multiple tanks, please be sure to update your…
Teacher Orientation will take place on Tuesday October 6th at Eversource Headquarters 107 Selden Street in Berlin, CT. Teachers new to the Salmon-in-Schools program as well as veteran teachers, school liaisons and CRSA members are invited to attend. sign up here Or send an email to: info@ctriversalmon.org with your name and school if you’d like…
Our friends at the Rivers Alliance of Connecticut let us know that Kensington Fish Hatchery will remain open.
Here is a salmon release/stocking video we made in cooperation with CREC, the DEEP Inland Fisheries Division and featuring students from the Harris AgriScience Center at Bloomfield HS, CREC/Exploring Diversity through Aquaculture and CREC’s Aerospace and Engineering Elementary School. You can find the other videos on the Salmon-in-Schools page. EDA students are invited to Scotland’s…
We post Steve Gephard’s weekly reports on our website here. You can find them on the front page, from the ‘River Runs’ box. Interesting AND informative!
Steve Gephard will be speaking at the Lyme Land Conservation Trust on June 19th, not July 19th.