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Connecticut

• "Hooked, Line and Sinker: Trout Unlimited program brings nature into the classroom," BY Ann Baldelli, The Day (New London),  October 30, 2006. "Eleven-year-old Tyra Wolchesky is talking about a siphoning device used to vacuum waste from the water of a 50-gallon fish tank at the Integrated Day Charter School in Norwich." Read Full Article. (.pdf)

• "In Their Own Words," BY BETHE DUFRESNE, The Day (New London),  October 30, 2006. "Nature can be cruel, but then so can school. That was the first lesson fourth-graders at Sayles School in Sprague learned in their Trout in the Classroom program." Read Full Article. (.pdf)

• "School to work alongside trout-raising program," BY ELIZABETH ELLIS, The Shoreline Times(Hammonasset),  March 5, 2006. "WIth the onset of new development projects along the shoreline, the Hammonasset Chapter of the national organization Trout Unlimited is taking steps to preserve marine life." Read Full Article. (.pdf)

Georgia

• "Crowd of 350 Celebrates the Success of TIC," Blue Ridge Mountain Chapter Newsletter, April 2007.  "While many thousands of trout have been stocked in Georgia waters over the years, the Blue Ridge Mountain Chapter of Trout Unlimited believes it can safely assert that none have ever received a finer bon voyage than those released recently in Fannin County."  Read Full Article.
  
• "Trout in the Classroom," By Nick Carter, Georgia Outdoor News,  February 2007. "Fannin County Middle School students the first in Georgia to learn hands-on lessons raising trout in this TU program." Read Full Article.

Idaho

• "STUDENTS' FISH RELEASE PROJECT," by Tammy Scardino, KPVI (NBC Newschannel 6, Eastern Idaho),  May 26, 2006. "Back in December, we told you about a local school's special fish project. Not only do they study our state's fish, but they help restore their liveliness." Read Full Article.

Montana

• "Trout in the Classroom project gives students hands-on learning," By ALANA LISTOE, Helena Independent Record,  February 13, 2006. "Earlier this year eight classrooms in the Helena School District received 800 fertilized trout eggs, which have now all hatched and are giving students hands-on scientific learning." Read Full Article. (.pdf)

New Jersey

• "Hatchery experts spawned," By SUSAN LOYER, Home News Tribune (Central NJ),  December 7, 2006. "Rachel Bernstein, 11, dipped a small test tube into the fish tank and filled the it with water. She then put five drops of nitrate solution into the water and mixed the solutions together." Read Full Article. ($)

• "Outdoors: Trout in the Classroom growing in popularity," By PATRICK GURCZYNSKI, The New Jersey Herald, November 16, 2006. "When Brian Cowden was approached last year with taking over the "Trout in the Classroom" program, the expectations were low. The Trout Unlimited volunteer was asked to expand the program in Sussex Count by three schools." Read Full Article. 

New York

• "Thanks to grant, more kids can raise trout: Nonprofit helps Arlington schools," By Erikah Haavie, Poughkeepsie Journal, June 8, 2006. "First-graders at Vail Farm Elementary School will soon be able to raise baby trout in their classroom. Parents at Beekman Elementary School will be able to take home bags of books and activities to share with their children."  Read Full Article. (.pdf)

• "No Trout About It - These Kids are Hooked," New York Daily News, March 17, 2006. "A fish grows in Flatbush! Make that hundreds of fish - 100 brown trout and 120 tilapia, to be exact - all growing to adulthood in teacher Joan Stone's Environmental Sciences class at George Wingate High School in Flatbush." Read Full Article. (.pdf)

Pennysylvania

• "Wayne Highlands students hooked on raising trout," BY MEGAN REITER, The Times-Tribune (Scranton), 12/17/2006. "When Kelly O’Neill’s seventh-grade science students walk into her classroom, many don’t take their seats right away." Read Full Article.

Virginia

• "Release with no catch: Students bid farewell to brown trout they've raised," by Mason Adams, Roanoke Times, May 19, 2006.  "A swallow zipped low over the Smith River, but it went unnoticed by the more than 100 elementary, middle and high school students standing on the shores. Their attention was focused firmly on the water, where two men tilted buckets of brown trout into the river."  Read Full Article. (.pdf)

• "Doctor's passions merge in Trout in the Classroom," By Johnny Buck, Martinsville Bulletin (VA), January 29, 2006. "A local orthodontist has made it possible for area teachers to bring part of the great outdoors into the classroom. Dr. David Jones is donating more than $10,000 to introduce Trout in the Classroom to schools in Martinsville, Henry and Patrick counties." Read Full Article. (.pdf)

United Kingdom

• "Trout and Salmon in the Classroom," River Restoration with Theo Pike, Fly Fishers' Republic.com (UK), February 2007. "Apparently, education can be a tricky business at the start of the 21st century. Health and Safety, those three little words we were talking about last month, don't just mean effort and administration for those of us arranging river cleanups and other adult events." Read Full Article.