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Environment students get hands-on
Students support returning salmon
On Oct. 23, environmental science students helped move fish from the Mill Bay fish trap. For more than 25 years, volunteers have collaborated to lift Coho salmon to spawning streams in the Shawnigan Creek watershed because the returning fish face a series of waterfalls that are impassable.
To support this effort, Shawnigan students were involved with netting, carrying, caging and releasing slippery fish that weighed up to 20 pounds each. After about 3 hours of work, the group had helped successfully move about 150 fish to their new spawning locations.
We acknowledge with respect the Coast Salish Peoples on whose traditional lands and waterways we live, learn and play. We are grateful for the opportunity to share in this beautiful region, and we aspire to healthy and respectful relationships with those who have lived on and cared for these lands for millennia.
Shawnigan Lake School is an independent co-educational boarding school for ages 13 –18 on Canada’s beautiful Pacific Coast. Our diverse, interdisciplinary and innovative programming helps shape the next generation of global leaders.
