Two local high school students are completing an internship at the Hatchery.  Josh Curtin, from Lee High School, and Brett Brumo of Monument Mountain High School, are spending several hours a week working with Foundation volunteers.  They are learning about operations, fish biology and life spans, and the professional side of environmental management, and are responsible for producing a final project to be graded by their teachers.

The New Marlborough Central School 1st and 2nd graders spent a morning at the Hatchery, observing fish at different stages of development with Melissa Kobelin, their teacher. She reported that after the tour that they were excited about seeing tiny baby fish and 'HUGE' parent fish, and loved the chance to feed the fish in the pools.  LeRoy Thorpe served a guide and instructor for the visit.

Brook trout will be returning to the Hatchery as eyed-up eggs from the Paint Bank Hatchery in Virginia.  The eggs will be trucked north from that hatchery, which is about 5 hours south of Washington, D.C., in November.  We hope for an 80% survival rate to adulthood.  The fish will eventually be released into local waters.  The Hatchery has not had brook trout in a number of years, and we are very pleased to be adding them back in.  We currently raise Atlantic salmon, brown, and rainbow trout.