The Connecticut Department of Environmental Protection issued the following news release:

Connecticut Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) Commissioner Gina McCarthy, Meriden's Deputy Mayor Dominello, School Superintendent Mary Cortright and first grade students from Hanover Elementary School today stocked adult rainbow trout at Black Pond in Meriden in final preparation for Opening Day of trout fishing season on Saturday, April 19.

"Fishing is an outdoor activity that has connected Connecticut's families for as long as families have lived on these lands," said Gina McCarthy, Commissioner of the DEP. "From Native Americans to the present day, fishing has a way of bringing together ...