Bowen Island Fish & Wildlife Club

Spring Update 2010

admin — Sun, 11 Apr 2010 18:02:19 +0000

The 17th annual Coho Bon Voyage event is scheduled for Sunday June 6, 2010 from 11am to 3 pm at the Terminal Creek Hatchery and from 1pm to 2pm at the Lagoon Causeway. Visit our celebration and release some wild Coho Salmon Fry into Terminal Creek right at the hatchery location or at the freshwater Lagoon Causeway. As always, all ages are welcome.

At The Hatchery

Bill — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 22:53:28 +0000

April 15th, 2009 ,we Ponded the Chum by moving them from

their incubation trays to the fresh water troughs.

Fourteen trays were removed from the rearing room.

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Each tray holds more than seven thousand Chum who started their journey as fertilzed eggs in December 2008.

This procedure is carefully done by one of our members.

This is where they will stay for the next few weeks until they are released into Bowen Islands freshwater streams.

Quick timing is important when moving the Chum from the rearing room to the hatchery’s fresh-water troughs.

Here they experience a new life in water which is more than an inch deep.

All of the Chum Look very healthy this year.

The Bowen Island Fish & Wildlife Club is pleased with these results.

At the Hatchery

Bill — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 23:54:41 +0000

Sunday May 03, 2009 at the Lagoon (about 12 noon). We are going to release our wild Chum. About 100,700 of them. Chum are the fish that soon after they hatch they want to get into the ocean and not hang around in our Bowen Streams. We will be loading them up at the hatchery and into the DFO truck and then transporting them to the Lagoon for release.

Come and have a look and maybe release a few buckets into the Lagoon yourselves.

At the Hatchery

Bill — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 19:35:01 +0000

We have 100,700 Chum eggs and 11,400 Coho eggs in our egg trays. All are doing well.

News

Bill — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 05:50:58 +0000

: New signs for some of our Bowen Creeks

On Monday Feb. 23rd, 2009 Municipal Council accepted a partnership proposal with the Bowen Island Fish & Wildlife Club. The Club will purchase Salmon and Trout habitat signage for selected creeks and Public Works will then install the signs within the municipal roads right-of-way.

For now the Club will be providing nine (9) signs for locations on Killarney, Terminal, Davies and Explosives Creeks. These particular creeks are designated at this time not only to denote Bowen’s resident Cutthroat Trout populations but to also point out the Clubs main interest in Pacific Wild Salmon (Chum and Coho) that inhabit these same Creeks.

Thanks Mayor and Councillors!