2009 May - STEP Report, We did it!
Yes, we did it. Despite many challenges this year, we are proud to say that our egg distributions to certified STEP classes went very well this year. It’s always been somewhat of a challenge, each year, to do the distributions, but, this year we were faced with more challenges than ever…..there were fewer spawners, thus presenting less schedule options, School Spring Break periods interfered more than ever, and the the eggs matured faster due to current temperature warm-up periods.
Many thanks go to Barry Burt for leading the Distribution efforts. And thanks to Carla Moss and Dave Strieg for coordinating things at the Hatchery. And, too, there were many helpful, experienced “distributing-folk” who were up early in the morning to get the eggs and to distribute them to a six county area. Unfortunately, there were a number of chiller problems.
We did manage to replace many of the faulty chillers, but not all, before the day of delivery. We regret that some of the classes could not participate because of these chiller problems. How many classes participated? We started with about 113 classes, but some had to drop out. There must have been over 100 classes at the time of delivery. When things settle down, we’ll get the accurate count.
