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NEWS • Events & Activities • FotoFish Gallery • FishPass • FishTales
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NORTHEAST OHIO IS WET! Okay, no news there. But if you think about what that means, it's a Very Big Deal.
No matter where you are, you're never far from a tiny stream or a big creek, even if sometimes that creek runs
through pipes under the street or under your house. Our dream for Year of the River is that everyone living in Northeast Ohio will visit their neighborhood river or stream and think about where the water comes from, where it goes, and what lives in and near the area.
The photos on this page show folks who've gone fishin' in our waterways, or who have taken our smiley fish to the
water and sent us a picture. You can do it, too.
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HOW TO: Download the file to print on letter size or legal size paper (click on the size you want), and color it in. Take it, a friend and a camera to a stream you love or would like to get to know. Take your picture with the smiley fish. Email the file (maximum 1Megabyte, try to keep it under 300 pixels high or wide) to fotofish@crcpo.org and include your name, age, where you live, and the name of the stream (if you know it...if you don't, tell us the town or park where the pic was taken.)
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CHECK OUT THE FISH HATS CREATED AT BURNING RIVER FEST!
The music was great, the beer was Great Lakes, the food was fantastic, but oh, those fish hats were the hits of the day. |
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| LIVE (almost) FROM BROOKSTOCK '09 at the Cleveland Metroparks and Big Creek! |
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CLICK HERE to go to the BROOKSTOCK 09 PHOTO GALLERY and see all the beautiful fish art and talented fish artists! Thanks to Friends of Big Creek for the fish pix!
  
  
 
 
 
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The ladies from Cadette Girl Scout Troop #218 from Tallmadge, with their fotofish, enjoying River Day 2009 activities at Breakneck Creek in Ravenna
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< Estella Grace Gilley (3 years old) showing her happy fish at Walnut Creek in Adell Durbin Park, Stow, Ohio.
She used sidewalk chalk in pastel colors to decorate happy fish and blue fingerpaint for a watery background. |
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Sadee Schlund, of North Olmsted, was visiting the Rocky River for the
Northcoast Nature Festival when this
was taken near the Nature Center.
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Sadee's brother Noah Schlund also enjoyed the day.
Sadee's and Noah's mom, Dawn, took the photos. |
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The Smileyfish was also spotted at the Area 2 Envirothon held at Camp Asbury in Hiram Township, Portage County
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< Cuyahoga Fish hard at work!
Conducting an inspection at a Portage County
WasteWater Treatment Plant to make sure her
friends are protected. |
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This photo of Gale Mortland and her fotofish (which matches her yellow kayak!) was taken
at the junction of the East and West Branches of the Cuyahoga River (south of Burton, north of the
put-in at Eldon Russell Park on Rapids Road) in Geauga County in March (by Heike Robinson). "We shared the river
today with ducks, geese, an eagle, an osprey and many beaver lodges." Gale Mortland lives in Huntsburg, Ohio |
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"My boys and I fish and float the river
year round. This stretch of the Cuyahoga
is a well kept secret for fishermen. Lots of
large Northern Pike, Smallmouth Bass,
Yellow Perch, panfish and suckers."
Shawn (Smudge) Fitzgerald
Mantua, Ohio |
Heike Robinson of Beachwood paddles with her FotoFish on the East Branch of the Cuyahoga in early April. That's a major beaver dam behind her. Gale Mortland took the photo.
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We invite you to become a partner in this project.
If you have an idea or a plan for how you would like to help us celebrate, or if you'd like to volunteer, organize a committee or event, or make a tax-deductible contribution or become a sponsor, please contact us.
We're all in this (watershed) together.
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Contact us
by phone: 216-241-2414 ext. 610
by email: goodmanj@cuyahogariverrap.org
by snailmail: 1299 Superior Ave., Cleveland, OH 44114
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WHO ARE WE?
The Cuyahoga River Community Planning Organization is the nonprofit, nongovernmental organization that manages the Cuyahoga River Remedial Action Plan (RAP), the Cuyahoga American Heritage River Initiative (AHR), and the Cuyahoga/Lake Erie Environmental Restoration Technology Center (CLEERTEC).
For twenty years we have worked with stakeholders and communities in four counties and twenty-three tributary watersheds to restore and protect the Cuyahoga River and the nearshore areas of Lake Erie.
Learn more at www.crcpo.org
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