Montebello Fish Hatchery plays an essential role as a rearing station for young fish. DWR brings fingerling brook, brown, and rainbow trout that were hatched at DWR cold-water hatcheries to Montebello. These fish are grown until they are large enough to be stocked into waters on the east side of the Blue Ridge Mountains. Montebello stocks 23 rivers and lakes from Amherst County northward to Fairfax County in addition to six lakes and ponds and one stream in urban localities. Montebello normally stocks 100,000 to 150,000 trout per year.