It has been three years since Tropical Storm Irene swept through Vermont and flushed nearly 90,000 fish from the Roxbury hatchery, yet the facility is still waiting on the money needed to restore it to working condition. The hatchery is the oldest in Vermont and raised about 70,000 trout every year---roughly 30 percent of the state's yearling trout production. Despite its importance to anglers in the state, hatchery officials are having a hard time convincing federal agencies to fund Roxbury's restoration. "We anticipated some sort of loss, but not to the extent of what we saw," Roxbury...
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