The last of our Coho were ponded into our small tanks and put in floating nets. Now all of our Coho are out of incubation and will be with us till May 2024! All 24,000 Coho are now in one tank. We took the Coho from the incubation trays and put them into a bucket full of water. Then walked the bucket over to the small tank and put the Coho into the floating net to separate them from the…
We released 13,000 Chum into Chapman Creek! The eggs were fertilized and brought into incubation in November/ December 2022 and they left incubation in May 2023. The Chum stay with us for a very short time in our small tanks from May 2023 till June 2023 when they were released. The fish were released from the small tanks where they were in floating nets and netted them into buckets and brought them out to our rearing area to the box.…
65,000 Chinook were released into Chapman Creek. The eggs were fertilized and brought into incubation in October 2022. The Chinook left incubation in February 2023 and were reared in our tanks until they were released. To release the fish we used a sein net and had two people on each side of it walk the net around the tank from one side of the other to wrangle all the Chinook to one side. Once the fish were all together in…
39,013 Coho were released into Chapman Creek Hatchery. Tanks 29 and 31 were full of 39,013 Coho all together. The eggs were fertilized in October 2021 and were in incubation. They left incubation from March-May 2022. The fish were then reared in the tanks until May 25, 2023 when they were released as smolts. These Coho will spend the next year-and-a-half in the ocean, and then will return to spawn as adults in Chapman Creek in the Fall of 2024.…
On May 20, 2023 we had our 2nd annual Salmon Release Festival! With the help of the public, we released around 1,000 Coho salmon into Chapman Creek. The Coho eggs were fertilized in October of 2021 and were in incubation till March-May 2022. The Coho were reared in tanks once they came out of incubation and were then being released as smolts on May 20, 2023. The Coho will spend the next year-and-a-half in the ocean, and then return to…
This week was an exciting week here at the Chapman Creek Fish Hatchery. Over the past several months our team, led by Bill our Hatchery Manager, has been raising a number of salmon eggs harvested from the Chapman Creek run this past year, and, from our sister hatchery in Chilliwack. The team in Chilliwack provided us with chinook salmon eggs and we’ve been looking after them in our incubation building since their arrival in the fall. Now that the chinook…
Again this year we have a great group of volunteers helping us with the fin clipping of the Coho salmon we are raising in the hatchery. With over 40,000 fish to clip it is a long process, but many hands make light work of it.
On 7 June Bill led our volunteers in a day long project to release the Chinook salmon that we had bred here in the hatchery over the 2021-2022 winter and spring seasons. Approximately 60,000 Chinook were set free, using our new large scale hoses to help get them to the creek. We were also able to capture and transfer them much easier this year with the help of our new seine net! This made for a fun day in the…
On Saturday, 21 May 2022 we hosted our Salmon Release Festival to provide an opportunity for the public to participate in, and assist us with the process of releasing some of our over 22,000 Coho Salmon into Chapman Creek, and eventually, into the local ecosystem. The Festival was held under sunny skies on the long weekend, enabling our local and visiting supporters to come and see what is done at the hatchery, and support the release. The Sunshine Coast Salmonid…
When: Saturday May 21, 2022 11:30 am – 3 pm Where: Chapman Creek Hatchery What is it: Our Family & Community Day & Salmon Release FREE Admission! FREE Parking! Activities on the Day Opening Ceremony – Shíshálh Nation will be opening the festival and provide a blessing to the salmon as well as other activities during the day. Release of Young Salmon – Children and adults will be able to assist in the release of hatchery reared young Coho and…
