Update from Kyle Pilon, BIMES President

It was brought to my attention recently that we have not updated our website.  So, I write this letter to update you on the goings on at “the Hatchery”. Another quiet and beautiful summer has come and gone in our little corner of the forest.  And as the warmth, and the noise of big ski […]

Egg Take and Centennial Salmon Club

‘Twas a busy day at Mossom yesterday. Not only did we put 56,000 pink salmon eggs into our incubation system, but we spawned one of our Mossom cohos. The Centennial School Salmon Project club was there for its regular after school Wednesday work party. The students got a lesson from our DFO community advisor Sandie […]

Leeches from coho spawners

Mossom Creek Hatchery volunteers discovered a great many salmon leeches crawling about in the aluminum Capilano trough in which coho spawners are being held until they are ready to have their eggs and milt taken. The distinct movement of these annelids can be seen as they stretch and contract, attaching alternately with their anterior and […]

Centennial School Salmon Project – Nature of Things, 1983

Documentary, ‘Salmon in the Line’: In 1981, David Suzuki brought his Nature of Things TV show to the banks of Mossom Creek in Port Moody, British Columbia, to film a salmon enhancement project operated by student volunteers at Centennial Senior Secondary in Coquitlam. This after school club has been operating since 1976 and gave birth […]