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May 3, 2023

Little Current Fish and Game Club continues tradition of conservation education — Bill Strain of the Little Current Fish and Game Club introduces the students to a lamprey eel. An invasive species of aquatic parasite that now infests the Great Lakes.

Schoolchildren from several Island schools will make the pilgramage to the Bass Lake hatchery with fishing rods soon to follow

That is one big fish! The Little Current Fish and Game Club had close to 200 Grade 4 students from seven elementary schools on Manitoulin Island and Birch Island visit the club’s hatchery last week.

Each year since 2005, the club has held the Bass Lake Creek educational program visits for the students to not only education them about the importance of conservation and the intricacies of the walleye cycle and habitat, but provides the students with their very own fishing rod and reel to take home with them.

Little Current Fish and Game Club members Bill Strain and Dale Baker show students the process for fertilizing the walleye eggs.

Bill Strain of the Little Current Fish and Game Club took the students on a tour of the bell jar hatchery and fossils on display as part of the tour.

Bill Strain of the Little Current Fish and Game Club introduces the students to a lamprey eel. An invasive species of aquatic parasite that now infests the Great Lakes.

Dale Baker takes students on a tour of the clubs fish platform, outlining the process for raising walleye among other educational information.