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Students Stock Jamaica Pond with More Than 1,150 Salmon and Trout

The start of the spring fishing season began as students from the Kennedy, Curley and one other Boston Public school got an up-close lesson about fish.

Students and teachers from Jamaica Plain's and Schools and from the Dorchester Youth Alternative Academy helped release more than 1,000 salmon and trout into .

City Councilor Matt O'Malley, who lives in JP, also lended a hand for the annual rite of spring.

The pond was stocked with the following hatchery-raised fish:

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  • 900 rainbow trout
  • 100 brook trout
  • 100 brown trout
  • More than a dozen 15-pound Atlantic salmon
  • 50 tiger trout

The state stocks trout all over Massachusetts.

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