Tim Pardee, Martin Clarke, and volunteers with the Bowen Island Fish and Wildlife Club have seen several chum salmon preparing to spawn in Davies Creek and the Lagoon this year. The Club has also received numerous other reports of salmon sightings and are optimistic that this will prove to be a good year for salmon returns.
“Rod, who works with Metro Vancouver Parks, told us he saw six chum spawners in the Lagoon,” says Pardee. “Looking at the very positive results in the streams in West Vancouver, Squamish and on Gambier, I think we can feel some optimism that we¹ll have good results overall this year, too.”
In West Vancouver, streamkeepers are celebrating the fact that Chinook have returned to spawn in two creeks where they have not spawned before: Hadden Creek and Brothers Creek. Pardee says that this news is encouraging for the efforts of Bowen¹s streamkeepers.
“It gives us hope that we’ll actually see results in the creeks that we¹ve been working to rehabilitate,” he says.
The salmon that have been spotted in the lagoon, Pardee says, are all Chum and are now four years old. He adds that there have been no Coho sightings yet, but they may start to appear in early December.
