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Nature field trip turns up rare, toothy find for Millville school

Published: Nov 25, 2008

Steve Eisenhauer took four classes of fourth graders this month to explore some of the natural life southern New Jersey has to offer.

They didn't have to go far. Their school, Millville's Holly Heights School, adjoins the Menantico Wildlife Manage-
ment Area, so they could walk there.

Eisenhauer, regional director for the Natural Lands Trust and its Peek Preserve in Millville, pulls a 20-foot seine net through a freshwater stream and then a pond. The students sort through the aquatic life in the net, including eels, shrimp, eastern mud minnows, black-banded sunfish, dragonfly nymphs and the occasional pickerel, he said.

But the students and Eisenhauer pulled up a surprise on one of those trips this month - a strange and rare little fish with a disk-shaped mouth filled with teeth. More

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