Students and parents from Clearwater Playschool watch as Clearwater Trout Hatchery manager Mark Green transfers the last of 1,500 rainbow and 3,000 kokanee into Dutch Lake last week.
The youngsters had earlier toured the hatchery, then individually poured some of the fingerlings into the lake. Four trucks per day are now operating out of the hatchery, says Green, stocking waterways throughout the BC Interior.
With 3.4 million fish per year, the local facility is the most productive of the five hatcheries operated by the Freshwater Fish Society of B.C.
Free tours are available at the hatchery, seven days a week, 8:30 - 3:00.