The first Sunday in June is always a special day for Bowen Island Fish & Wildlife Club (BIFWC) salmon enhancement volunteers, who have worked so hard incubating, feeding and releasing pink, chum, and coho fry from the Terminal Creek Salmon Hatchery in Crippen Park. Chum fry were released in late April and most of our coho fry were released last weekend.
BIFWC volunteers need help from as many Bowen children as possible to release our remaining coho fry from the hatchery into nearby Terminal Creek. Parents, grandparents, and great grandparents are also welcome to assist and observe. Volunteer streamkeepers will be on hand to answer questions about salmon, hatchery operations, and our fish-bearing streams. This is our favourite event before closing the hatchery for the summer.
COHO BON VOYAGE will take place Sunday, June 7, between 11 a.m. and 2 p.m. at the Terminal Creek Salmon Hatchery in Crippen Park. Parking is available across from the Public Works Yard and gas station on Mount Gardner Road.
Please join us to see the smiles on children’s faces as they carry and release fry into Terminal Creek. Everybody is welcome.
