At The Hatchery
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.
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.