At the fishing weir we saw lots of salmon jumping and twirling, trying to get out.  These are steps that make the salmon go up to this crane that pushes the fish into this building where they cut the fish open and check for disease.  If they do, they kill the fish.  They get this tube that puts air in the fish, sucking their eggs out into a bucket.  The eggs go to the lakes.  In spring the eggs produce more fish.   ~By McKenna

 

At the fishing weir, we saw a bunch of fish called salmon.  Salmon were brought by the DNR.  Before that fisherman that had big boats in the Atlantic Ocean brought alewives in the ballast water.  The alewives died in the Great Lakes and were washed upon shore.  So then the DNR brought the salmon to the Great Lakes to eat alewives.  We saw them poke a hole in the back of the fish.  Then they stuck a tube in their stomachs and pumped out the eggs out of the female.  The male gives milk.  Then they put it in a bin.  Then shipped the leftover fish to make cat food.   ~By James