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EPA Awards $4,980 grant to Portsmouth Schools for Shad Restoration in Chesapeake Bay

Release Date: 7/26/2000
Contact Information: Roy Seneca (215) 814-5567

Roy Seneca, 215-814-5567

PORTSMOUTH - Portsmouth Public Schools has received a $4,980 environmental education grant from the EPA to get seventh graders involved in a project to restore the American Shad population in the Chesapeake Bay.

The project will involve 120 seventh graders in raising shad, monitoring their growth in a hatchery and releasing them into a local river. The students will interact with scientists and environmentalists throughout the project.

“This type of a project teaches students the importance of man’s interaction with the Chesapeake Bay environment while learning real world problem solving skills,” said Bradley Campbell, regional administrator for EPA’s mid-Atlantic region.

EPA’s education grant program is designed to stimulate grass-roots environmental education. Nationally, EPA awarded more than $2.3 million in environmental education grants in 2000 to schools, civic groups and non-profit organizations.

For more information on this grant, contact Ellen Wentworth at (215) 814-2034. EPA’s regional Internet home page also has general information on the grants: https://www.epa.gov/region03.