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Required Permit and Instructions

Instructions for Current Participants
If you participated this past year, you do not need to reapply, just send an e-mail to Barb Dilts advising her that your school is continuing the program will be sufficient.

Instructions for New Participants
In your first year of participation in the program, you must apply for a Scientific Collector's Permit. This permit is required by law. Follow the instructions below.

Permit Application Instructions

  1. Go to http://www.michigan.gov/dnr/0,1607,7-153-10364-35079--,00.html.
  2. Scroll down and click on Apply Online.
  3. Read and agree to the General Provisions.
  4. Check New.
  5. Complete contact information (name, address, etc.) in the top section of the application.
  6. You may skip the next section marked Student, Study, Major Professor. This permit is primarily intended for researchers and university students and this section is not applicable to you as a Salmon in the Classroom participant.
  7. Under Permit Type, check Salmon in the Classroom.
  8. Under Type of Specimen to be Collected, check Fish.
  9. Under Explain Detailed Study Plans, you may insert the following: "Obtain salmon eggs for the purpose of raising them until spring 2009 when they will be released into a pre-approved stocking location."
  10. Common Name of Species is Chinook Salmon
  11. Number you Desire to Collect is 300 if you are picking up from a weir and 200 if you are picking up from a fish hatchery.
  12. Short and Long Range Disposition of Animals is they will be planted in the spring of the year you are releasing them.
  13. In the Method of Collection Box, list the name of the weir or hatchery where you will be picking up your eggs (i.e. Wolf Lake Fish Hatchery).
  14. You may skip the last section that asks you to list all locations where collecting will occur. This section for members of the general public who are applying for a permit.
  15. Click Submit.

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