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Ben Oldenburg, Garrison Dam National Fish Hatchery, left, assists while Jason Lee, North Dakota Game and Fish Department, removes eggs from a walleye during a recent spawning operation at Parshall Bay on Lake Sakakawea.
PARSHALL – The holding tanks were full of healthy walleyes, brought in from over-night capture nets placed at various locations in Parshall Bay by North Dakota Game and Fish Department biologists. With white-tipped tail fins splashing water, the walleyes were about to be artificially spawned and the fertilized eggs transported for hatching at the Garrison Dam National Fish Hatchery.
This day was a bit different from others as a very attentive group of seventh grade students watched the process. They were from the ASB Innovation Academy at Williston, a new school that includes North Dakota Outdoors as an elective class. ASB is an acronym for American State Bank.