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Students in the natural resources class at Beaver Dam High School have been raising tilapia as part of the curriculum.

Agriculture instructor Jonathon Ganske said the students in the course are in three different groups. One of the tanks came from Ganske, one was donated by a business and the third was built by students. They are stored in the greenhouse.

Natural resource management is a one-credit course for 11th and 12th graders. The class teaches conservation of natural resources as being essential to the survival of this planet. This course introduces the students to management techniques used to maintain resources and the responsibility each person has to preserve Earth. Managing natural resources requires knowledge of land, laws, groundwater, fisheries management, government and the principles of ecology.

So far the students are learning a lot.

“Our fish came in no bigger than three centimeters,” student Ryan Christian said. “Now we have one that is 10 centimeters.”

Christian’s group was the one that built its own tank for the project.

“Ryan and I built it,” Cameron Neuman said.

A family friend of Neuman’s, Charlie Hammer, helped the students with the supplies.