‘the bi

e big
pond’

SOME B.C Institute of
Technology (BCIT) students
recently took their work out
of the classroom and into
the environmental
wilderness at North Van-

couver’s Seymour River
hatchery.

By Surj Rattan
News Reporter

The students, enrolled in
BCIT’s fish and recreational pro-
gram, spent the day in what is
known as “the big pond” netting
and tagging coho salmon.

Mark Angelo, Assistant Dean
of Renewable Resources and Bio-
logical Sciences, said the students
will return to the hatchery this
month and the tags will allow
them to count the coho popula-
tion.

“We'll also be taking the eggs
from the fish. We select 400 or
SOO fish and take the eggs and
then raise the eggs in the hatch-
ery,’’ says Angelo.

Seymour River supports all
varieties of salmon except
sockeye; it also supports popula-
tions of cutthroat and steelhead
trout.

The Seymour River hatchery
was established by BCIT in 1977

loan.

In October 1987, the Seymour
Salmonid Society took over the
responsibility for operating the
Seymour River hatchery. It is part
of the Salmonid Enhancement
Program, a province-wide incen-
tive to enhance salmon and trout
habitat and stocks.

The society is non-profit and
relies on sponsors and donations
for meeting its objectives:

-@to establish, coordinate and
operate fish enhancement pro-
grams;
@ to encourage proper manage-
ment of the fisheries resource;

. @ to provide an education base

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for a diversity of resource users;
@and to increase public
awareness of the needs and
benefits of the salmon resources
of B.C.

So far this year, the Seymour
River hatchery has _ released
305,000 salmon and trout into
Seymour River and Lynn Creek.

BCIT FISHERY students
recently netted, tagged and
released coho salmon at the
Seymour River Hatchery.

with a $23,506 federal government

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