Rainbow trout raised from eggs by elementary students released into stock pond

Students at St. Vincent elementary went to Hermitage Park on Thursday to release the trout they've been raising from eggs into a pond.

St. Vincent Catholic Elementary School students released rainbow trout into the Hermitage Park Stocked Trout Pond on Thursday.

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The students got the fish as eggs in January and have raised them since then as part of the Fish in Schools program.

Throughout the term, they cared for the fish daily, studied their life cycles, habitats and conservation challenges, and learned about the human impact on aquatic ecosystems, according to the school.

“We do the pH, we do the temperature and we feed them a certain amount,” Grade 5 student Abby told CTV News Edmonton.

The release of the fish into the pond marks the end of the students’ work.

“It’s kind of sad, because we’ve named some of them, but (it’s) good,” Abby said.