Port Moody Salmon Hatchery Burns Down
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the fog ducker
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once the smoke clears ...
have a fund raiser , get this back up and running !!!
fd
have a fund raiser , get this back up and running !!!
fd
trophywife
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Able drain will be donating materials and labour to help get er going again.. I grew up catching ho's from this hatchery.. Gonna be some hungry cutties this year..
trophywife
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The last female..
trophywife
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Totally destroyed!! Psf and a bunch of locals are already committing money and time to rebuild..110,000 fertilized eggs gone...
trophywife
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Lone survivors ,, 4400 coho fry.. A big thanks to port moody fire dept for doing what they could. Sad day at what was a great community hatchery... CBC is here doing interviews. Please help if you can.
finaddict
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I was one of those high school students that helped get this project off the ground in 1977 through 79. The first year (76) had a complete loss of all fish due to an illegal dumping of fill by Jack Cewe limited above the intake that killed off all the fry. That dumping was allowed by the city of Port Moody and the court case was precedent setting as it was one of the first where the federal department of fisheries actually sued the municipality (Port Moody) as well as the contractor (Cewe) for the damages and won.
In 77 we had our first successful release of chum fry and in 1981 we had our first successful return of Chum adults. As a BCIT Fish and Wildlife student I enumerated those returning adults. If I remember correctly there was an estimated return of 220 adults. The two teachers involved were Ruth Foster and Rod MacVicar who were both excellent teachers and dedicated environmentalists. The program has flourished and has actually created a new highschool course at Centennial for F&W. The program has also been expanded as part of the Burrard Inlet Marine Environmental Society and Ruth and Rod's involvement continues to this day.
Devastating news, but I know that the program is still solid and I am sure they will rebuild.
http://www.mossomcreek.org/about_us/founders
In 77 we had our first successful release of chum fry and in 1981 we had our first successful return of Chum adults. As a BCIT Fish and Wildlife student I enumerated those returning adults. If I remember correctly there was an estimated return of 220 adults. The two teachers involved were Ruth Foster and Rod MacVicar who were both excellent teachers and dedicated environmentalists. The program has flourished and has actually created a new highschool course at Centennial for F&W. The program has also been expanded as part of the Burrard Inlet Marine Environmental Society and Ruth and Rod's involvement continues to this day.
Devastating news, but I know that the program is still solid and I am sure they will rebuild.
http://www.mossomcreek.org/about_us/founders
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trophywife
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The survivors have enough flow to keep alive... The goal is to be able to get things going so next fall the hatchery is back in full swing...
Cuba Libre
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Fin.... remember this???? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MCCuLeXhvx0&feature=youtu.be
Great teaching program that just kept growing...........
Bod
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Totally destroyed!! Psf and a bunch of locals are already committing money and time to rebuild..110,000 fertilized eggs gone...
A rotten deal of course. I'm sure the facility will be rebuilt with a lot of volunteer effort.
Like most small streams around the lower mainland there will be late Coho returning, sometimes into February. Maybe some broodstock can still be taken and raised at another hatchery.
Bod
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Good on yah Sir!
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