South Coast Hatcheries

[wildmanyeah]

The water issue here in Sechelt has been ongoing for years. Our water comes from 2 lakes at the top of the watershed and with the drying trend the water level has dropped. The population boom up here has increased demand, and our inadequate system is not keeping up. There's been several ideas over the last few years like deepening the waterway from the lake to the creek to draw deeper from the lake, connecting the lakes via pumps as well as money spent on researching well sites for a secondary source of water. Unfortunately its just years and years of $$$$ spent, with ZERO action taken. We'll be stage 3 water restrictions again, with a chance of stage 4 (again).

That's not even mentioning the poor fish in the creek. The poor creek. Its a really bad scene.

I found in funny the other year when vancouver was on water restrictions and Kamloops had none. It's just a lack of planning and action in various forms of government.

 

[Simong]

Thank you for jumping on and providing an update. For those fish moved offsite, will they return to Chapman or do they imprint on the Capilano?

The coho are coming back to Chapman in late September and will remain onsite until release next spring.

 

[Simong]

I found in funny the other year when vancouver was on water restrictions and Kamloops had none. It's just a lack of planning and action in various forms of government.

And, in the mean time, flows in the creek would be helped by this as well. It would help any spawners that don't hit the hatchery.

This should be linked to helping the whales... people from multiple groups would probably pay attn.

- Paul

 

[Simong]

We created this document to shed some light on the situation and to provide some solutions going forward. We have also applied for 6.5 million dollars under the newly created BC Salmon Restoration Fund to rebuild the hatchery so it could be water use friendly (resirc).

Simon Grant
Hatchery Manager
Chapman Creek Hatchery, Sechelt, BC

 

[Simong]

Just ran across some bad news about the Chapman Creek hatchery and the impact of expected low water flows this summer. For the size of the creek, they do a great job. Too bad they're having to deal with this issue on top of everything else.

https://www.coastreporter.net/news/...sh-this-summer-with-drought-likely-1.23653892

And this one:
https://www.coastreporter.net/news/...gy-includes-new-education-campaign-1.23653883

 

[Chaster Byng]

The coho are coming back to Chapman in late September and will remain onsite until release next spring.

Hi Simon - Can you comment on what percentage of the released fish are marked as hatchery?