...__ _.... _ -------=~= - ------ - guides for other locations: Little Gently Down Campbell River, Kanaka. Tynehead and Ouellette Creeks. the Stream They were called Gently Down Our spring issue of PIPnews The Stream. announced a contest to rename expands Those. too. were highly successful. the publication so that it can So, this year, Gently Down The better reflect activities of the entire Teaching the young to respect Stream is expanding to cover Community Involvement Unit. and preserve the salmonid Nanaimo, Weaver /Chehalis, resource is SEP's investment in Oldfield hatchery and Pallant As you can see from our new the future. Over the years, SEP Creek. masthead, we have a winner. Our has produced the educator's new title came from Sheena and packages, Salmonlds In The Recent opinion polls have show Chris Dennison ofKamloops, B.C. Classroom: several film and increasing public concern for the video presentations for school environment. This is reflected in While several suggestions had use and The Qulnsam Five, a an increased emphasis in the new merit, Stream Talk is simple and teacher resource to be used in B.C. education curriculum. In that effective: "Stream" for our creeks conjunction with hatchery tours atmosphere, SEP's extensive and rivers, the beneficiaries of all at Quinsam hatchery. support for teachers who want to community involvement activities. give their classes a better Through this publication, SEP can The success of The Qulnsam appreciation of salmonids can "Talk" to you and we hope you will Five led to the development, a help ensure a better future. all "Talk" to one another, too, by few years ago, of similar study sending us your news. This newsletter, with its new title, will serve an expanded audience The Deadman in the future. We will continue to provide stories and Tipsheets of is alive interest to Public Involvement volunteers, but you can expect to see other items about what's Dennis Demontier, community happening at the 28 CEDP advisor for the central interior, projects in Pacific Region. has an project on the Deadman River that has the Skeetchestn Some items from beyond SEP Band. the Shuswap Nation Tribal may be of interest, too. Specifi­ Council and the Kamloops Fish cally, would you like information, and Game Club hard at work this ,------------1in Stream Talk, about: fall. A pilot hatchery is going into operation along with a project to I 1. Other government programs I assess coho and chinook release "I'm.from The Skeetch." says frsh I (funding. community-based, I strategies for the area. atop hatchery's cake. displayed by I environmental)? Yes D No DI manager. Don Ignace. • I 2. Activities of sahnonid programs! By mid-October, the cooperative in other jurisdications (Europe, effort had completed its chinook I I I U.S.A., Japan)? Yes D No DI egg-take and was getting started on capture of coho broodstock. Chinook returns were below I Please clip and send, along with I VI No.J expectations for the first time I any other comments or news to: I ~Vol. since the stock began to rebuild a I Dixie Cutler, Editor, Stream Talk, I few years ago. With the rest of the NCC Ltd., 1304 Seymour Street, I -*-I Fisheries PAches I Vancouver, B.C. V6B 3P3 or I ...,. and Oceans et Oceans activity going well, everyone is 1 I phone 689-9511. • l+I hoping that it is just a one-year L ___________ _J C anad a dip in an upward curve. While the distance across Massett SETG gets in CB saves the Inlet is only about ten miles. wind conditions usually make the crossing too dangerous for small on good news Sewall fry craft so communting to and from the homestead was out of the George Bates, community advisor We've all heard stories about the question. Only one individual, for northern Vancouver Island and farmer in a remote area removing Diana Prasol, was still living on the adjacent mainland, reports the hired man's appendix while the homestead. that many of his projects are being instructed by a doctor over enjoying very strong chinook the phone. Now, from the Queen "Poor Diana," says community returns. At Gold River, by mid­ Charlotte Islands, comes a new advisor Tom Rutherford, "She was October, more than one million twist to the old tale - raising coho left with these thousands of egg­ chinook eggs were in the like creatures to care for, and not incubators. The project saw 350 to a clue on how to do it! She had 400 chinook returning - showing just moved from the prairies -it the benefits of enhancement. was totally foreign to her" Salmonid Enhancement Task Rutherford planned to get across Group members saw the success the inlet at critical times, for egg­ when they toured several north picking and ponding, but the island projects October 14 & 15. famed Charlotte's weather had Like most SETG tours, this set a other plans. What to do? fast pace. A visit to IBEC Inc. to see the Atlantic and Pacific The answer came in the form of salmon hatchery operation was the settlement's only reliable followed by a visit to the Kokish communications link, a simple CB project (co-sponsored by Canadian radio. With Diana on one end, Forest Products and IBEC). with her tiny charges, and Tom on There, they saw chinook smolts the other, instructions were given being pen reared to supply future on what to do, how to do it, and broodstock. Then on to the when. Cheslakees operation where the Tom Rutherford, CAJor the Queen Nimpkish Band's old hatchery is Charlotte Islands. presents a "The first time, my 'fish culture in still in operation while planning necklace to Diana Prasol . • a nutshell' talk worked very well," for reconstruction over the next says Rutherford, "But I guess my three to five years. A stop for The Sewall Residents Group - the attempt to explain bulk sampling, lunch (courtesy of Western Forest Gifford family - has been which was relayed through a third Products) at Port McNeil, a quick operating a project for several party, was a bit much: Diana gave visit to Marble River (where Task years at their remote homestead up on it and actually counted Group member Tommy Russell on the west side of Massett Inlet. each and every fry!" has been a volunteer), over to Port A small creek borders their Alice to see coho being held and property and, although the habitat Despite the difficult situation, steelhead fry at a project under is great. the run has dwindled to both Diana and the fry survived the auspices of Crystal Waters Sea three to five returning adults each and, come spring, the juveniles Farms, Western Forest Products fall. The Giffords; parents, were taken - by backpack - to a and the Port Alice Fish and daughter and son-in-law, have release site above a beaver dam. Wildlife Club. Saturday's schedule been incubating eggs from this was topped off with a tour and nearly-extinct run and have also For such devotion - above and salmon barbeque at the Quatse been working on Buckley Bay beyond the call of duty - Diana hatchery. Creek. removing an old wooden was recognized at the QCI dam to improve access for volunteer meeting last June. There "The weather was beautiful," says spawners. she was presented with a Bates, "It was probably the last necklace. The design? An argillite day this year to hold a barbeque!" All was well until last winter carving of a Haida salmon. when the senior Giffords were off On Sunday. the Task Group to holiday in Hawaii and the finished its visit, touring Lynn younger members of the family Broekhuizen's project at Holberg. were working in Port Clements. Highlights Cooperation in Cowichan "Our chinook target for 1988 was set at 750 thousand eggs, then increased to 925," says Cowichan Band hatchery manager, Doug Millerd, "Then, part way into the season, in response to Fisheries Management. the target was further increased to one and a half million!" Quite an increase. but the Band did it. They did not, however, do it without help. Everyone is working together in the Cowichan Valley With the chinook counting fence behind him, Cowichan Hatcheryforman these days. As a result, the Lambert Goldsmith tranfers chinook broodstoekjrom the fish trap to chinook rebuilding plan is right on holding pens. From there, a tank truck carries the.fish to the hatchery track. where they ripen in holding ponds. • With the Chinook Initiative as the various groups began looking for enhancement efforts for coho as catalyst and the administrative ways to reverse the trend. When well as chinook assessment. blending of PIP and CEDP as the the Minister announced the Science runs a chinook counting mechanism. the Cowichan Band, Chinook Initiative. it provided a fence on the Cowichan River. SEP Development Division, the way to focus their efforts. The Water flow is managed. through Pacific Biological Station and Cowichan Band hatchery site was cooperation between federal and volunteer groups of the Cowichan ideal for an effort to increase provincial fisheries staff, Valley are hard at work. chinook production. As a result, provincial water management and many SEP staff contributed their Fletcher Challenge. to facilitate The project has increased its expertise to the facility upgrade. chinook sahnon migration. As capacity from a 1986 target of 350 Nitinat also assisted with the Lake well. the counting fence and thousand chinook eggs to this Cowichan chinook net pen associated trap facilitates year's 1.196 million. It is rearing, as did the Cowichan En­ broodstock capture for the CEDP cooperating with PBS (Pacific hancement Society.