Come May, students from nine West Virginia schools will help stock local trout streams — with trout raised in the students’ classrooms.

“Trout in the Classroom,” an initiative launched by conservation group Trout Unlimited, encourages students to raise trout fry from eggs to 4-inch “fingerlings” in specially chilled 55-gallon aquariums.

Sunday’s Gazette-Mail feature tells how the program got started in West Virginia and how natural gas producer Chesapeake Energy has helped underwrite expenses.