40 - Friday, May 10, 1991 - North Shore News

Hatchery opens doors this weekend

THERE IS something fishy going
on up the Seymour River on Sun-
day: the Seymour River Hatchery
is holding an open house.

By Michael Becker
News Reporter

Free shuttle buses run from 10
am. to 4 p.m. from the Rice
Lake gate area in the Seymour
Demonstration Forest at the upper
end of Lillooet Road.

The 20-minute bus ride runs
through the Seymour Demonstra-
tion Forest and on to the hatch-
ery, which is located about 15
kilometres past Capilano College
in the watershed just below the
Seymour River dam,

Visitors can take part in a 20-
minute hatchery tour. Barbecued
hotdogs and T-shirts will also be
on sale.

Said Janice Jarvis, ‘‘What
they'll see here regarding fish is
some of our adult steelhead
broodstock and they'll see that
we're raising 125,000 chinook
smolts. They’ see that we have
60,000 coho fry. and we have
28,000 summer-run steelhead
ready to be released next year. We
have cutthroat brood sinck and
cutthroat fry and about 80,000
chum.,”"

The fish hatchery is becoming
an increasingly popular destina-
tion for school children.

“We're in the process of adding
a building for classes. Last year
6,000 people visited. We do a lot
of tours for children,” said Jarvis.

Meanwhile hatchery staff
released 5,700 two-year-old
winter-run steelhead trout into the
lower Seymour River this week.
And about this time next year ap-
proximately 28,000 summer-run
steehead trout will he released.

Jarvis estimates that about 1%
of the fish released this week will
actually return to spawn in the
viver,

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“Some of them are intercepted
by steelhead anglers and commer-
cia) fishermen. It’s not a huge
number, So we're just supplemen-
ting whatever the wild run is.
They go through the ocean and
probably go halfway up to Japan
and back again and they usually
spawn as five-year-old fish,’’ she
said.

The hatchery opened in 1977
and was operated by BCIT. Since
1987 the hatchery has been

operated by the community-run
Seymour Salmonid Society, under
contract to the federal department
of fisheries.

The society is working to
establish, coordinate and operate
fish enhancement programs: en-
courage the proper management
of the fisheries resource; provide
education; and increase awareness
of the needs and benefits of the
salmonid resources of B.C.

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