Serving Gogebic, Iron and Ontonagon Counties
Serving Gogebic, Iron and Ontonagon Counties
HANNA KOIVISTO, center, an A.D. Johnston High School sophomore, dumps a brook trout into Massie Pond at Bluff Valley Park in Bessemer Tuesday while her classmates, Karli Trcka, left, and Taylor Manchester watch.
By TOM STANKARD
BESSEMER - To encourage fishing at Massie Pond in Bluff Valley Park, David Rowe's 10th grade biology class stocked 23 brook trout into the four-foot deep pond Tuesday morning in continuation of a "real-life" biology experiment.
In October, Rowe, an A.D. Johnston High School biology teacher, conducted a fish census with his class to estimate the population at the 1.5-acre pond, using a capture/recapture method. Students captured other species of fish in box nets and counted fish larger than four inches.
Then the students clipped a small piece off the...
