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Enthusiasm ran rampant through the class, as ooh’s and aah’s were sighed after different fish parts were shown to the advance agriculture class at Cochrane Fountain City High School, April 26^th. 

 “That’s all the bigger the heart is?,” one of the amazed students asked. 

Heidi Keuler, La Crosse FRO, was demonstrating a rainbow trout dissection before the students themselves would have to successfully cut open a fish without damage to the organs inside.    

“Don’t forget everyone, Ms. Jumbeck says we get chocolate if we don’t pop the air bladder during the dissection!” one of the high school students said to the rest of the class as she started slicing into the rainbow trout. 

At first a couple of the young students were tentative, but by the end of the class period they were digging in with both hands. 

All 18 students had lots of fun as they learned about 20 or so organs and their functions. 

In addition, Keuler spoke about several fish diseases including Viral Hemorrhagic Septicemia which was originally documented in Europe in the 1930’s on a rainbow trout farm.