Members of the Mill Bay Conservation Society have built a human\u002Dpropelled salmon run, carrying thousands of spawning salmon from a fish trap in the Salish Sea.
No longer. Pacific salmon stocks are fragile now, in part because human-made barriers prevent the fish from travelling up-river to their natural spawning grounds, he says.
Many hands are making more fish. This Earth Day the group will celebrate carrying a record-breaking 7,300 returning Coho salmon in a single season — 30 times more than 15 years ago when the society started counting the fish they carry. “Millions of eggs will be hatched from these fish,” says Alexander Hyndman, a volunteer. Those eggs translate into hundreds of thousands of young salmon that will swim into the Salish Sea.
At the end of their rail journey, the salmon are unloaded one by one, placed into tanks and driven to release areas on the upper creek. The gender and condition of each fish is recorded.Article content One is Shawnigan Lake School, which has a more than 20-year relationship with the Mill Bay volunteers. Scott Noble, the school’s recently retired mascot known as “Enviro-Man,” says that the Mill Bay fish carry provides great hands-on experience for students. He says he has many memories of “students with big eyes and smiles on their faces” handling the fish.
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