Let the Egg-citement begin Open House
150 visitors on this Salmon Stewardship Center Sunday, and those visitors learned about those amazing salmon and took in an artificial spawning demonstration at Bell-Irving Hatchery.
150 visitors on this Salmon Stewardship Center Sunday, and those visitors learned about those amazing salmon and took in an artificial spawning demonstration at Bell-Irving Hatchery.
If you go up to the hatchery, you’ll notice a lot of work going on! The coho rearing ponds are being updated! The ponds are drained, and the fencing is coming down. Soon the excavators will arrive. The interior and perimeter of the ponds will be cleared of the old rock, sediment and weeds, and … Read more
Off go the coho smolts on this very salmon Sunday, as they commence their journey to the ocean.
Students release their Salmonids in the Classroom chum fry while the one year old coho in the Bell-Irving Hatchery rearing ponds are horsing around as they always do before their imminent ocean journey.
KEEPS would like to recognize a generous personal donation made by Charlotte Faulkner, a Vice President at Odlum Brown and an accompanying corporate donation. As a small. not-for-profit organization, it is donations like this that are our lifeblood! Thank you, Charlotte!
The fish fence is the Rocky Balboa of infrastructure, as it once again survived an extreme flow event; this time it was December 4th, as eagles and a coopers hawk look on.
It’s always interesting to get the autumn salmon season underway. We kick off this fall with a rare egg take from returning Kanaka pink salmon, and of all things two sockeye salmon at the fish fence. Meanwhile, chum are beginning to arrive. Stay tuned!
Come along as we take a hike on the Canyon Trail before looking in on the final egg take of the year.
Let’s take a look as we artificially spawn chum salmon at Bell-Irving Hatchery.
Let’s take a little look at what’s going on at Bell-Irving Hatchery these days.