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Biology teacher Olivia Griset hands a cup containing an Atlantic salmon fry to Sean Marchant, 9, on the bank of the Little River in Lisbon on Wednesday. Fourth-graders at Lisbon Community School raised salmon in their classroom and released 44 fish. Katie McManus, left, is a junior at Lisbon High School who is in Griset’s marine biology class. McManus and her classmates helped the elementary students test the water quality and raise the salmon in classroom tanks. A dam was removed on the river in 2009, giving the fish a better chance to migrate to the ocean and back, Griset said.
Atlantic salmon prefer to spawn in smaller tributaries, making the Little River an ideal spot to release the fish. Griset said that schools from all over Maine come to the Androscoggin River tributary to release their fry.
Julia Swan, 17, a junior at Lisbon High School, shows Sean Marchant, left, and Brandon Keith-Williams a Petri dish of naiads that students discovered in the Little River. Naiads are pollution–sensitive animals, meaning the water quality of the Little River is good. Marchant, 10, and Keith-Williams, 9, are fourth graders at Lisbon Community School.
Katie McManus, a junior at Lisbon High School, wades along the Little River while releasing endangered Atlantic salmon in Lisbon on Wednesday. McManus, 18, and her marine biology classmates teamed up with students from Lisbon Community School for a service learning project.
Brandon Keith-Williams, a 9-year-old fourth grader at Lisbon Community School, looks down onto the Little River in Lisbon on Wednesday. Keith-Williams, his classmates and students from Lisbon High School, released Atlantic salmon fry into the river.
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