Every May, 4th grade students, scientists, parents, and FHLSOP staff conduct two beach seines at Jackson Beach near Friday Harbor. These beach seines sample the eelgrass beds and act as a culminating activity for the students’ fish unit which focuses on watersheds, fish metabolism, eelgrass ecosystems, and fish species diversity. With the help of staff and scientists at the Friday Harbor Laboratories, fish from these seines are identified, counted, sized (flat fish and surf smelt only), and returned to the eelgrass beds. Students collate and graph their data, create hypotheses about population change and distribution and present their results to their peers and their university partners.
Results
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