From eggs to eating: Students schooled on salmon life cycle

It’s that time of year again: Hundreds of children visit the resident fish of Sport Lake and Johnson Lake, intent on catching them.
Each year, students from the Kenai Peninsula Borough School District gather for ice fishing excursions on the two lakes over the course of three days. Jenny Gates, a fisheries biologist with the Soldotna office of the Alaska Department of Fish and Game, organizes the trips and said this year’s ice fishing excursions saw participation from 18 schools. The