The 6th Grade students at Montgomery School are continuing their studies of how human activities affect our watersheds this year. Our goal is to learn how to be better stewards of the watersheds on our planet, and create solutions and habits that we can all do to help preserve and improve the quality of our freshwater streams and rivers.
This is a great opportunity to learn more about the brook trout and how they survive in the wild. This year we are going to raise them again and so far our numbers are much better then last year.
505 eggs arrived on November 3rd, 2010. 76 of these were DOA (Dead on Arrival), two
were already hatched and dead, and four were partially hatched and we could not determine if they were dead. So, we put 423 viable eggs into the net breeder, along with the four partially hatched sac-fry. At the moment we have 416 eggs/sac-fry in the tank based on the number we started with - the number removed so far. This is a record for us! But we have experienced high initial nitrate levels. Who ever said raising trout would be easy? We are really excited to be helping the environment again as we work on Watershed Stewardship and Conservation. Check back later for more and look for our Trout Cam in December!