WEYBURN – The FINS program, or Fish in School, will be back for a third year in the kindergarten class at St. Michael School, with the trout fish eggs to arrive on Feb. 5.
The teacher, Candice Porter Kopec, said her students are excited at the prospect of the fish eggs arriving for the class’s fish tank.
She said in a social media post that the kids love it, and the program is a positive influence on them as they take turns and help to take care of the eggs through the late winter-spring months.
The class will feed and raise the eggs into fingerlings, and they will be released into a pond at Mainprize Regional Park in early June.
This is part of a province-wide program of the Saskatchewan Wildlife Federation, and is provided locally by the Weyburn Wildlife Federation, which bought the tank to be used in the class, said president Larry Olfert.
He and wife Judy will deliver the batch of 100 eggs, once they’re delivered from the fish hatchery at Fort Qu’Appelle.
Since the initial outlay for two fish tanks, the Weyburn Wildlife Federation has an annual cost of about $350-400 for the food charcoal filters for the filtration system.
The second tank had been at the Weyburn Comp the last two years, but it won’t be used this year, with the goal to hopefully start the program at another school like Assiniboia Park next year.
