BIH staff and volunteers can be seen feeding the fry several times a day. Most of the fry, the pinks and chum, only stay with us for a few weeks before they smolt (they adapt for life in salt water in an intermediary stage). This process marks the beginning of their migration from their home stream to the ocean.
Coho have a different lifecycle. The fry and juveniles will stay resident in the local watershed for a little over year after emerging from the gravel before they smolt and migrate out to brackish (partly salt) water.
The rearing ponds will have the previous year’s coho juveniles, and these can most easily be seen during feeding time (typically every other day). As the waters warm, feeding will return to every day.