BOYS at a secondary school are preparing to take up their roles overseeing 150 babies.
The pupils, at Kemnal Technology College in Sevenoaks Way, Orpington, have just taken delivery of wild trout eggs from the Environment Agency.
They will care for and prepare the eggs for release into the River Darent later this year.
There will be the chance for the boys to catch some of their "babies" when they go fishing for trout as part of the college's Enrichment Week in July.
The boys will keep the eggs and rear them in an incubation box paid for by the agency and supplied by Jet Set UK.
The eggs are part of a consignment of 5,000, with the rest being hatched in an incubation box on the River Darent at Lullingstone Castle, near Eynsford.
This follows a similar exercise by the school last year and is part of the agency's attempts to improve fish stocks in the Darent.
It has been paid for through the sale of rod licences.
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