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Guess who's sleeping and fishing at the same time! GO HERE to find out. 
You can print the page and color it!

Quiz..........How many Great Lakes are there? Can You name them? Where are they? GO HERE and see

Do you know what fish live in  the Great Lakes? GO HERE

Quiz ........... What do you know about worms??? 
Fact: Did you know Nightcrawlers can live 5 to 10 years?
GO HERE for more Nightcrawler facts.

What do you know about Sturgeon? It is a prehistoric creature that lived back when the dinosaurs were here and still live in the Niagara River and Lakes!
GO HERE to learn more!

Win an award with your FIRST fish! GO HERE

Sturgeon Video put out by the Wisconsin DNR GO HERE
Learn about sturgeon spawning habits and more!

What do you know about this pre-historic creature?
Did you know this is a creature left over from the dinosaur age and still here today?
Do you know what the Ojibwe Indian name for Lake Sturgeon is?
This fish was caught in the Lower Niagara River!
If you want to learn more... Click on the fish!

DO YOU SEE A CAT ON THIS PAGE? IF YOU DO WHAT KIND IS IT? Go Here to find out

TO LEARN ABOUT AND SEE A SNOW OWL GO HERE

DO YOU HAVE A FISHING PICTURE YOU WOULD LIKE TO SHARE? 
GET YOUR PARENTS PERMISSION AND 
SEND IT TO US AND WE'LL POST IT HERE ON THIS PAGE!
We do not want your last name, just your first name and what kind of fish it is.
EMAIL IT OR SNAIL-MAIL IT TO 
OUTDOORS NIAGARA
1003 LAKE ROAD
YOUNGSTOWN NY. 14174

GO HERE TO VIEW PICTURES

MY FIRST FISH!

Hey kids, catch a fish and reel in an award.

 N.Y. State Dept. of Environmental Conservation has a program that a lot of parents & kids are not aware of.  The DEC wants your participation and it’s easy, here’s all you have to do. When you catch the very first fish you ever caught, find out what kind it is (if you are having trouble, ask an adult to help you), fill out the form below and send it to:

"My first Fish"
NYS Department of Environmental Conservation
50 Wolf Road
Room 552
Albany, NY 12233

The DEC will send you a special award! Your award will tell what type of fish you caught and where you caught it. You'll be able to show your award to all your friends and tell them how you caught your first fish. No pictures required. 

Just send in your information like shown below on a plain piece of paper 
and mail it in! Make sure you print clear!

Good luck and good fishing!

Name_____________________________________

Address ___________________________________

 City________________________________________

State ___________________ Zip ______________

 Phone______________________________________

Type of fish ________________________________

Where caught ______________________________

 Date Caught ________________________________

1)     Alewife                      

2)     Anchovy

3)     Atlantic Salmon

4)     Bloater

5)     Brook Trout

6)     Brown Trout

7)     Burbot

8)     Carp

9)     Chinook Salmon

10) Coho Salmon

11) Flounder

12) Freshwater Drum

13) Halibut

14) Lake Herring

15) Lake Sturgeon

16) Lake Trout

17) Lake Whitefish

18) Lobster

19) Longnose Sucker

20) Muskellunge

21) Northern Pike

22) Octopus

23) Pink Salmon

24) Rainbow Smelt

25) Rainbow Trout

26) Round Goby

27) Round Whitefish

28) Ruffe

29) Sardines

30) Sea Lamprey

31) Shark

32) Smallmouth Bass

33) Square Pants Bob

34) Tuna

35) Walleye

36) Whale

37) White Perch

38) White Sucker

39) Yellow Perch

To see what doesn't
belong .....Go Here

          Nightcrawler Facts:

• They are an exotic, alien species introduced from Europe in the soil around plant roots
• They live 5-10 years
• They can grow to a foot in length
• They burrow to six feet or more
• They have 5 "hearts"
• They have red blood (with hemoglobin like us)
• Worms lack a brain but have nerve centers (called ganglia) lack eyes but can sense light with photoreceptors.
• Worms in general have been around 120 million years. They evolved during the time of the dinosaurs; hominids have been around only about 4 million years and Homo Sapiens about 25O,OOO years.
• All earthworms/crawlers enrich and aerate the soil. Darwin found that worms turn over the top 6 inches of topsoil every 20 years.

Click on the Wolf  and find out about a 147 pound wolf!