Tiny brook trout fry swim in a plastic container Friday before being released into Waterhouse Brook in Poland. Poland Spring Water Co. provides the money for for students at Poland Community School to raise and release the trout. Daryn Slover/Sun Journal

Poland Community School fifth graders pull a wagon full of brook trout fry Friday past the Poland Fire Rescue Department on their way to Waterhouse Brook in Poland. Poland Spring Water Co. provides money for the students to raise and release the trout. Daryn Slover/Sun Journal

Poland Community School fifth graders Nora Burns, left, Iris Banaitis, center, and Carly Edwards take a close Friday look at Burns’ two brook trout fry next to Waterhouse Brook in Poland. They were three of 65 who released brook trout raised from eggs at their school. Teacher Kristie Ferland followed in her mother’s footsteps and has kept the program going each spring for the past 13 years. Her mother taught at Minot Consolidated School and ran the same program for many years before retiring. Students gave their trout names such as Jmall, Dilynne Junior, Pizza Junior, Ophuichius and Bob. Poland Spring Water Co. provides the money and equipment for the school’s classroom fish hatchery each year, Heather Printup of Poland Spring said. Daryn Slover/Sun Journal

Poland Community School teacher Kristie Ferland, right, chats with staff and students Friday while students release brook trout fry into Waterhouse Brook in Poland. Ferland followed in her mother’s footsteps and has raised and released trout with her students every spring for the past 13 years. Her mother taught at Minot Consolidated School and ran the same program for many years before retiring. Daryn Slover/Sun Journal

Poland Community School fifth grader Dilynne Avery, 10, releases tiny brook trout fry Friday into Waterhouse Brook in Poland. Sixty-five students released trout into the brook after raising the fish from eggs at their school. Teacher Kristie Ferland followed in her mother’s footsteps and has kept the program going each spring for the past 13 years. Her mother taught at Minot Consolidated School and ran the same program for many years before retiring. Students gave their trout names such as Jmall, Dilynne Junior, Pizza Junior, Ophuichius and Bob. Poland Spring Water Co. provides money and equipment for the school’s classroom fish hatchery each year, Heather Printup of Poland Spring said. Daryn Slover/Sun Journal