High School students restock Lake Somerset

SOMERSET COUNTY, Pa (WTAJ)--The Pennsylvania Fish and Boat Commission hosted Somerset County high school students at Lake Somerset Wednesday for an educational event.

This event included five stations including; safe kayaking and canoeing, fishery management education, dam infrastructure education, and nature viewing. However, the students' main activities involved stocking trout and putting in new habitats in the lake.

The students participating Wednesday were from Rockwood, Shanksville, and Turkeyfoot high schools. Students raised channel catfish starting at the beginning of the school year. These fish were then stocked into Lake Somerset.

The Pennsylvania Fish and Boat Commission Executive Director, Tim Schaeffer, said Lineville State Fish Hatchery donated the fish. That also includes helping build a habitat structure for the lake.

"Throughout the school year, they've raised channel catfish. That was supplied by our Lineville State Fish Hatchery," Schaeffer said. "They're about one inch long when they got them in the fall. Now, they're about four to eight inches long, so we stocked the catfish into the lake."

The commission began draining the lake ...