Aquaculture students release fish

OCEAN SPRINGS, Miss. -- Twenty five hundred speckled trout are now back in the wild thanks to a class of Ocean Springs High School students, the University of Southern Mississippi Gulf Coast Research Lab and the Department of Marine Resources. For the last three years, scientists with the Gulf Coast Research Lab have been teaching and training the students on how to breed, rear and harvest plants and animals in all types of water environments, a science called aquaculture. Ocean Springs High School is the only school in the state to offer the courses. Interested students can take a series of three courses in the field. For the last eight months, aquaculture instructor Bryan Butler and his 60 or so students have been learning husbandry skills, or basically how to raise and take care of baby trout in a 500-gallon tank in a greenhouse behind the school. (Source: Sun Herald, 03/07/17)