Mars Area ‘Trout Release Day’ goes swimmingly
MIDDLESEX TWP — As temperatures reached over 70 degrees Monday, a group of determined Mars Area Middle School students set to work releasing 173 rainbow trout into Glade Run Lake.
“It was like 70 degrees, and they were going into shock once they got put into the water,” eighth-grader Isabella Lippke said.
While the first few trout struggled to adjust to the warm water near the boat launch, organizers and science teachers Amanda Stavish, grade eight, and Misty Thurber and Jessica Winter, grade seven, asked students to test the lake’s chemical properties.
Since January, the classes have been raising the trout in two tanks as part of the Trout in the Classroom program, and according to Thurber, these measurements were part of the grade seven students’ daily study with the fish.
