Tahsis Salmon Enhancement Society Work in the Rivers

The Tahsis Salmon Enhancement Society is having a busy season, giving Mother Nature a boost, and ensuring that we have more salmon in our ocean.  This is the time of year that the salmon are spawning, so in order to increase the numbers, the volunteers catch breeding stock and harvest the eggs and sperm, then incubate the fertilized eggs at the hatchery, doing more work to count, document and track them.  Once they are vaccinated and weighing about 5 grams, they are released into the ocean.

Last week they were able to fertilize 200 000 Chinook eggs, which is a hugely successful  number, increased from 68 000 last year. 

There are 1 and half billion salmon are released into the pacific ocean every year from hatcheries, Usually they are chum salmon, and mostly from Korea and Japan, but Tahsis does it's part, and every fish counts! 

250 Tahsis River fish returned this fall, and 800 returned to the Leiner River, thanks to the Tahsis Salmon Enhancement Society volunteers!

Photos courtesy of the Tahsis Salmon Enhancement Society