The first Sunday in June is always a special time for BIFWC volunteers who have worked so hard incubating, feeding and releasing pink, chum, and coho salmon fry from the Terminal Creek Salmon Hatchery in Crippen Park. Pink and chum fry were released into the Lagoon in February and April, respectively, and most coho fry have just recently been released. The BIFWC has saved enough coho fry so that children and their parents, grandparents, and great grandparents throughout the Bowen community have the opportunity to help volunteers release fish from the hatchery into nearby Terminal Creek. This is by far our favourite event of the year before we close the hatchery for the summer.
COHO BON VOYAGE will take place Sunday, June 1, between 11a.m. and 3p.m. at the Terminal Creek Salmon Hatchery in Crippen Park.
Please join us to see the smiles on the children’s faces as they carry and release fish into Terminal Creek. Everybody is welcome so invite all your neighbours and friends and their children. Volunteers will be on hand to answer questions about BIFWC activities, salmon, and Bowen Island’s fishbearing waterways.
