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| Releasing Your Salmon |
 It is important to understand the goal of the program is to provide students with an educational opportunity to learn about the salmon life cycle and natural resource conservation. It is not intended to be part of a fish stocking or fish recovery program. Because of the small number of fish you will be releasing, survival may be low. However, taking proper care of your fish and releasing them into favorable habitat will increase their chance of survival.
Releasing the salmon that you and your students have cared for over the course of an entire school year is one of the most exciting aspects of the program. It is important that you release your salmon into suitable habitat to provide them with the best possible opportunity of surviving. It also is essential that you adhere to the regulations that have been put in place by the DNR as outlined below. Please read the information carefully.
Stocking Permit
A stocking permit will be mailed to you in August. You must mail the bottom portion of your permit, with your stocking information, back to the DNR (to the address on the form) within 14 days of your release in the spring. This is important because without this information, you will not be allowed to receive your Scientific Collectors Permit next year and continue your program.
Where you can Stock Your Fish
Step 1: Determine which Fisheries Management Unit (FMU) your school is located in.
 Step 2: Choose a stocking location in your FMU by going to the list of approved stocking locations. Pre-approved release locations.
You may stock your salmon in any of the rivers, lakes or streams on the approved list. If you are still unsure of your stocking location, Contact your Salmon in the Classroom coordinator.
How to Transport the Fish to Your Stocking Location
- 5-gallon bucket
- Use water from your tank
- Do not overcrowd the fish; use more than one 5-gallon bucket if necessary
- If the fish will be transported for more than an hour, aerate the water in the bucket with a battery-operated bubbler or "ice the bucket"
- Upon arrival at the river, take the temperature of the river water and the temperature of the water in your bucket
- If there is a difference of five degrees or more between the two you will need to acclimate the fish before releasing them into the water
- To acclimate the fish, gradually replace the water in the bucket with river water. You should replace only one-quarter of the bucket water volume every 15 minutes with river water to avoid temperature shock
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