Intern Student Adam Littrell, from Missouri Southern State University, cleans a raceway containing rainbow trout at the Neosho National Fish Hatchery. - Photo by Ralph Simmons

Adam Littrell, Environmental Biology Student at Missouri Southern State University is part of the Neosho NFH team for a semester, participating in a volunteer Internship Program at the hatchery for the fall semester. 

Littrell's internship has been beneficial to both he and the Neosho National Fish Hatchery, including him to assist with everything from water quality monitoring, feeding fish, cleaning of tanks, loading of distribution units, mowing grass, filling feeders, adjusting timers and replacing baterries for automatic feeders, fish food calculations, fish health, and to the importance of safety.