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John D. Simmons, Charlotte Observer

10/30/01: To help fertilize the eggs brook trout eggs and milt are swished together in a bowl during an October spawning session at the Armstrong State Fish Hatchery outside of Marion, NC. According to Kyle Briggs (CQ), 31, "you take four times as many eggs as you are going to need." The hatchery is a source for brook and brown trout where they keep brood trout for spawning. 245,000 brook, brown and rainbow trout are stocked by the hatchery in the streams of 10 North Carolina counties. Besides raising these trout from eggs and milt until they are big enough to stock in North Carolina streams Armstrong also raises rainbow trout but buys the plentiful rainbow eggs.