CELINA-Youth Conservation Corps (YCC) enrollees Mila McCullough, Sasha Elrod, and Alijah Roberts recently completed their summer work program at the Dale Hollow National Fish Hatchery.  

HELPING HANDS-Local students helped hatchery employees with their duties this summer as a part of their work program. (photo submitted)

The Clay County High School students helped the hatchery staff with feeding fish, collecting and counting dead fish, cleaning tanks and raceways, moving fish around the hatchery, distributing fish to local waters, performing janitorial work, maintaining the public fishing area, and carrying out grounds maintenance.

The eight-week program also has an environmental education facet. which included a tour of the Wolf Creek National Fish Hatchery Visitor/Environmental Education Center, Jamestown, Kentucky.

If funding is available, students will be chosen at random to take part in next year’s summer work program.