Summer 2015

The early arrival of Summer began near the end of May and what a hot summer it has been so far.  Our creek dried up almost a month early and now we rely on our well to supply water to our remaining Coho in the pond.  Summer is usually a quiet time at the hatchery but as you will see below, we were just as busy as ever.

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Removing excess sand from the creek with help from the City of Port Coquiitlam.

Cliff and Bob hang out at the hatchery

Gert gets right into his work!

July hatchery BBQ

A water fight broke out later.

Lots of great food as usual.

Shane helps pack down the limestone pathway.

City of Port Coquitlam employees volunteer to lay the limestone pathway.

Invasive plant removal work party 

August BBQ and 15th Anniversary of the society.

Harry, the birthday boy

Edmund strikes a pose.

August 29 - The Big Wind Storm resulted in a big clean-up at the hatchery. 

Spring 2015 activities

A lot has happened throughout the spring that has not been mentioned so here are some of the activities and events that occurred.

 Regular fish weighing from the pond.

We had some pollution but not enough to cause a problem.

Ongoing low water problems meant work on the creek pump.

 The DFO used our facility to host another of their province wide meetings.

Maurice demonstrates our egg room equipment.

Our creek pump needed repairs.

Wes, our onsite pump repairman.

Young salmon enter the troughs.

 More creek work in low water conditions.

Cleaning up the egg room.

 Our young streamkeepers.

 Terry, our Hatchery Manager, was nominated for an environmental award for Poco.

The awards ceremony was a lot of fun.

Releasing the remainder of our Chum

Open House - 2015

 Collecting Coho for fish release.

 Poco Mayday Parade - 2015 

 Spring Education Tours to school groups

  

Releasing Coho in local creeks.