A giant salmon will swim into Burien Town Square next week.

Actually, it’s FIN, a fiberglass salmon that children can walk through and learn about the life cycle of the salmon. It will be at the square next to the Burien Library, 400 S.W. 152nd St., on Wednesday, April 17 and Thursday, April 18, noon-7 p.m. each day.

The fun educational opportunity is hosted by Sustainable Burien and the Community Salmon Investigation (CSI.)

Burien resident Grace Stiller rented the fiberglass salmon from the North Olympic Salmon Coalition for display at Newcastle’s Earth Day celebration, beginning April 20.

Stiller contacted Sustainable Burien to see if the group wanted to display FIN before it swam over to the east side.

Besides volunteers to help with the educational display, Sustainable Burien is seeking a budding actor to “embody” or, more accurately, “in-body” the costumed Bert the Fish, who also may make a Town Square appearance.

According to his biography, Bert was born in 1996. He notes he has always been concerned with water quality. Preserving natural habitat by slowing the flow of storm water and replanting native plants, and preventing pollution like pesticides from entering our local waters are his passions.

To volunteer, contact rdare2@yahoo.com.

For more information on FIN and the Newcastle event, visit http://newcastleweedwarriors.org/Earth%20Day%202013/Newcastle%20Earth%2… or http://nosc.org/education/fin/