The Sunshine Coast Salmonid Enhancement Society Chapman Creek Hatchery is a non-profit organization that is dedicated to sustaining and building trout stocks in local waterways and facilitating public education regarding salmonid habitat and their life cycles.
Starting Sept. 26, 15 volunteers per day are needed for 13 days to help mark 200,000 coho salmon by removing the adipose fin with a pair of surgical scissors. A coho with its adipose fin removed is deemed to have been raised in a hatchery during the fresh water stage of its life. Many areas of the Coast allow only adipose marked coho to be retained by fishers.
Volunteers from the Sunshine Coast communities have marked in excess of 2.5 million coho for release in Chapman Creek, Halfmoon Bay, Secret Cove and the Sechelt Inlet.
Lunch will be provided on a daily basis by the hatchery and all volunteers can stop by to register or call 604-885-4136 for more information.
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