Fish Grow News Today

My name is Megan Gilles and I am an undergraduate extension education intern working with Minnesota Sea Grant (MNSG). This summer I traveled to Grand Portage, Minnesota, to help deliver an environmental literacy program about streams and the food webs of stream ecosystems at a week-long camp for tribal youth. The camp was called Agaaming Aki (i.e., “the land across the water”).

Unnatural energy or resources? >> yes, yeah. thats exactly it. >> heres how this fish pond works. ruths ancestors built the stone walls to create the pond and protect it from the waves of the ocean. they also used rocks to create a channel with a gate allowing the fish to come in. as the fish grow, theyre unable to get out. this design kept people fed for centuries without one piece of modern technology. its a never ending costco sample plate. >> our elders were able to sustainably live here by ...

Doesnt require a lot of unnatural energy or resources? >> yes, yeah, thats exactly it. >> heres how this fish pond works. ruths ancestors built the stone walls to create the pond and protect it from the waves of the ocean. they also used rocks to create a channel with a gate allowing the fish to come in. as the fish grow, theyre unable to get out. this design kept people fed for centuries without one piece of modern technology. its a never ending costco sample plate. >> our elders were able to s...

>> heres how this fish bond works. ruths ancestors built the stone walls to create the pond and protect it from the waves of the ocean. they also used rocks to create a channel with a gate allowing the fish to come in. as the fish grow, theyre unable to get out. this design kept people fed for centuries without one piece of modern technology. its a never ending costco sample plate. >> our elders were able to sustainably live here by producing their own food, by gathering their own seafood. if yo...