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Fingerling trout enter Manasquan via FSCD
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6.15.2007
WALL TOWNSHIP — Freehold Soil Conservation District staff released approximately 50 young trout into the Manasquan River at Brice Park on June 5 as part of the Trout in the Classroom program.
These New Jersey native brook trout were raised, from eggs to fingerlings, at the Freehold District office as part of an educational program to raise awareness within the building community that development and construction projects can have an impact on trout habitat and water quality.
Soil can run off a project site, down storm drains and directly into nearby brooks, streams or rivers where trout eggs are laid. Increased sediment in streams also leads to higher water temperatures — rising to levels where trout cannot survive.
Hundreds of brook trout have already been released this spring as part of the Middlesex and Monmouth County area Trout in the Classroom Program sponsored by Freehold Soil Conservation District.
Several area schools were provided with aquarium equipment — tanks, chillers, filters, etc., (worth an approximate value of $1,000), and trout eggs provided through Trout Unlimited and the New Jersey Division of Fish and Wildlife, for the yearlong Trout in the Classroom project.
More than 100 students engaged in hands-on stewardship activities and gained greater insight of real-life water quality and wildlife issues.
Schools that participated in the project included Middletown High-South, Fords Middle, South River Middle and St. Stanislaus Kostka, Sayreville.