A DECREPIT
Sits next fo oa small pond
filled with small tinh ai the
Sevinour River Platehery.

By Surj Rattan

News Reporter

old) trader

The tratler houses a few chairs,
aocomputer and a back roan that
CONTALNS several fools.

For the past $3 seuss the old
trailer has sersed as the ad-
minstrative alfice of the Sevmour
River Hatchery.

“This is where we work out
of, says hatchery manager Janice
Jarvis. ‘tlt feaks." says Jarvis,
pointing to water stains on the
trailer’s ceiling.

A few yards away from the
hatchery’s administrative office is
a huge building currently under
construction that will be the hame
of the new hatchery offices.

The new building will also
house a classroom, a display area,
a lab and an incubation centre.
What the hatchery is looking for
tight now are public donations io
help pay for the building.

The fundraising drive is being
organized by the Seymour Salm-
onid Society, which is a non-profit
group in charge of the hatchery’s
operations.

Jarvis says the hatchery's fund-
raising drive needs all the help it
can get.

“A big problem is the lack of
people who know about us and
what we're doing,’’ says Jarvis.

Last year more than 6,000 peo-
ple visited the hatchery; over
4,000 people have toured the site
already this year.

So far this year the hatchery has
reared, released and _ transferred
405,652 fish and 85,452 eggs.
More will be released throughout
1991. In 1990, 399,204 fish and
61,615 fish and eggs came from
the hatchery to replenish onen

ocean and river fish stocks.

The hatchery rears and releases
coho, chum, chinook and pink
salmon, cutthroat trout and winter
and summer steelhead trout.

Fish from the hatchery have
been released into the Seymour

River, Lynn Creek and into the
waters of Deep Cove.

In addition, thousands of eggs
have been transferred to clemen-
tary schools in North Vancouver

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NEWS photo Neil Lucente

AFTER WORKING out of an old, 300-foot trailer, the Seymour Salmonid Society will soon be moving into a new 2,800-square foot
building that will also house a lab and classroom.

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