Anmore South – proposed OCP Amendment
icona properties presentation and Proposed Anmore OCP amendment As an environmental organization that has been working in the Anmore area for 48 years, we would like to provide the Village of Anmore with formal comments on the recent icona Properties presentation and the proposed OCP amendment that would change the land use designation for Anmore […]
2021 Year End Message
As we say goodbye to 2021 and hope for a better year in 2022, we want to express our appreciation to our Mossom Creek volunteers. We especially thank our core volunteers who faithfully handled all the necessary work week after week over the past year in all kinds of weather. Mossom was closed to the […]
Winter Operations Update
We have been working with the city of Port Moody to ensure all dangerous trees along our road are removed. We have so many amazing volunteers who give so generously of their time and talent to continue building and making improvements to Mossom Hatchery and Education center.
Water Quality Monitoring at Mossom
Thanks to a generous donation from the Mattson Family, in honour of Jim Mattson, water quality testing and monitoring of Mossom Creek has taken place every Salmon Sunday since October 13, 2019. We also started monitoring North Schoolhouse Creek in early December and are excited about the addition of a new water quality station at […]
Kevin Ryan awarded the 2019 City of Port Moody Environmental Award
KUDOS TO KEVIN! We are celebrating because our president, Kevin Ryan, was recently awarded the 2019 City of Port Moody Environmental Award. Kevin Ryan had only been a volunteer with the Mossom Creek Hatchery for a year when he put his name forward to be president of the Burrard Inlet Marine Enhancement Society in […]
A Cougar for Mossom Creek Education Centre
In 43 years no volunteer at Mossom has ever seen a cougar in the watershed. Yet about once a month we record one on the trail cams placed in the forest. Several years ago, we let the BC Conservation Service know that if a cougar has to be destroyed somewhere in the province we […]
Salmon news for the new year
A small group from Mossom went up to Squamish in September to assist in a Pink salmon egg take. Pink salmon spawn once every two years, and this is the year. Our portion of the eggs was determined to be 50,000 and these eggs remained in Squamish until they became eyed in December, at which […]
Help us say no to DFO funding cuts
This past year, Mossom Creek Hatchery celebrated 40 years of stewardship work that brought wild salmon back to Mossom Creek and other streams at the head of Burrard Inlet. This incredible effort relied on a unique partnership between hard-working volunteers and the Fisheries and Oceans Canada Salmonid Enhancement Program (SEP). On Friday May 26, BIMES […]
PHOENIX OF MOSSOM CREEK – after the fire
A video chronicling the rebuild of the Mossom Creek Hatchery After the December 11, 2013 fire destroyed everything that we had built up over 37 years, there were many kind and generous offers of assistance from the community. One was from award-winning documentary film maker Eva Wunderman. Starting just days after the fire and until […]
Port Moody Rotary, library support Mossom Creek Hatchery rebuild
by Staff Writer – The Tri-City News posted Sep 23, 2014 at 2:00 PM Money continues to roll in to support the rebuild of Mossom Creek Hatchery in Port Moody. Here Sandie Hollick-Kenyon of Fisheries and Oceans Canada and Mossom volunteer George Assaf get a close look at the creek. — Image Credit: ZOANN MORTEN PHOTO Money raised for Mossom Creek […]