Sunshine Coast Salmonid Enhancement Society

The Sunshine Coast Salmonid Enhancement Society is a non-profit organization dedicated to sustaining and building salmon stocks in local waterways and facilitating public education regarding salmonid habitat and life cycles.

Summer 2024 Operations Update

For this season, as of Aug 2024, we have incubated, reared, and released to the creek,

• 107,000 Pink fry
• 22,000 adipose fin clipped Coho smolts
• 14,000 Chinook smolts

This years summer projects are,

• the big viewing deck beside the creek is being totally rebuilt, wheelchair access is being added, the old deck was built in the 1980’s and was rotting.
• installation of new deck boards and a security gate on our accessway bridge for the intake pond.
• wheelchair ramps will be installed at both ends of the small bridge beside the adult fish trap.
• the deck on the main hatchery building will also be seeing some upgrades, new deck boards and railings.

Currently, we are holding just over 19,000 Coho fry at the hatchery, where they will remain until May or June 2025. In October, these Coho will have their adipose fins clipped, this will identify them as “hatchery fish”. Sport fishers are permitted to retain hatchery Coho, while those caught with their adipose fins intact must be released unharmed so they are able to continue their journey to the spawning grounds. These intact-finned Coho are considered wild.

In July our new backup generator was commissioned by the supplier and is now fully operational, from this point forward the pumped groundwater used for fish rearing will continue to flow in the event of any power failures.

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