EXETER Beatrice Cooper held up a cup of water to show off the tiny brook trout she was preparing to release into the Exeter River.
“I’m going to miss him,” the fourth-grader from Lincoln Street School said. “But I’m happy he’s going to be in the wild.”
Beatrice was among a group of students from teachers Keith Schmitt and Hallie Estle’s classes who helped raise brook trout this year. They started with about 200 eggs in December, which were then hatched, and carefully raised by the students, before the 40 strong who survived were ready to leave the tank for the river.