Collecting critters

February 27, 2021 11:00 pm • Last Updated: March 01, 2021 9:05 pm

By Sarah Gordon
Staff Photographer

Fenn Holt, of West Hartford, looks for animals in the tide pools at UConn Avery Point´s campus in Groton on Sunday, Feb. 28, 2021. Fenn is a marine biology teacher at Berlin High School and was gathering crabs, snails and other living organisms to put in aquariums in her classroom. Her classes usually do field trips with Project Oceanology, which is based at Avery Point, but won´t be able to this year because of COVID-19 restrictions. “If we can´t come here I´m just trying to bring it to them," she said. (Sarah Gordon/The Day)
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Fenn Holt, a marine biology teacher in Berlin, knows she won't be able to take her students on their typical Project Oceanology field trip because of COVID-19 precautions. So on Sunday she collected fish and other aquatic life to display in the five 30-gallon tanks she has in her classroom.

"If we can't come here I'll bring it to them," she said of spending her weekend collecting marine life.

Holt was joined by her daughter Schuyler, 12, as they looked for animals in the tide pools at UConn Avery Point's campus in Groton on Sunday, Feb. 28, 2021. They didn't find many of the crabs they were looking for but were gathering snails and other living organisms.

Fenn Holt, of West Hartford, and her daughter Schuyler, 12, look for animals in the tide pools at UConn Avery Point's campus in Groton on Sunday, Feb. 28, 2021. Fenn is a marine biology teacher at Berlin High School and was gathering crabs, snails and other living organisms to put in aquariums in her classroom. Her classes usually do field trips with Project Oceanology, which is based at Avery Point, but won't be able to this year because of COVID-19 restrictions. "If we can't come here I'm just trying to bring it to them," she said. (Sarah Gordon/The Day)
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Fenn Holt, left, and her daughter Schuyler, 12, of West Hartford, look for animals in the tide pools at UConn Avery Point´s campus in Groton on Sunday, Feb. 28, 2021. Fenn is a marine biology teacher at Berlin High School and was gathering crabs, snails and other living organisms to put in aquariums in her classroom. Her classes usually do field trips with Project Oceanology, which is based at Avery Point, but won´t be able to this year because of COVID-19 restrictions. “If we can´t come here I´m just trying to bring it to them," she said. (Sarah Gordon/The Day)
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Schuyler Holt, 12, of West Hartford, joins her mother, Fenn, as they look for animals in the tide pools at UConn Avery Point´s campus in Groton on Sunday, Feb. 28, 2021. Fenn is a marine biology teacher at Berlin High School and was gathering crabs, snails and other living organisms to put in aquariums in her classroom. Fenn's classes usually do field trips with Project Oceanology, which is based at Avery Point, but won´t be able to this year because of COVID-19 restrictions. “If we can´t come here I´m just trying to bring it to them," she said. (Sarah Gordon/The Day)
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