Hatchery Volunteers Visit Port Moody Council
On Tuesday, January 14th, 2014 at Port Moody City Hall, Ruth Foster took the podium before Council to update them on our progress, and primarily to express the gratitude of the Mossom community for the City’s immediate and ongoing generosity in funding, material, and general support to the aim of getting back up on our […]
Progress! Port Moody delivers temporary trailer to Mossom Hatchery.
Progress! Today the City of Port Moody delivered a construction trailer to Mossom Creek so that we will have a temporary headquarters. What a wonderful way to assist us! On Sunday a core group of volunteers attended a very productive visioning meeting to determine what our needs and wants are as we consider the rebuilding […]
Update from Ruth Foster
On behalf of the volunteers at the Mossom Creek Hatchery, I wish to express profound gratitude for the surge of community kindness since last Wednesday’s fire. City of Port Moody council and staff have backed us from the instant we called in the blaze that quickly turned our beloved hatchery and environmental education centre into […]
Fire Destroys Mossom Creek Hatchery
You have probably recently learned of the fire that has destroyed our beloved hatchery. The only items that survived are our coho smolts, the two tubs, and the raingear shed. There is a black and white photo of myself viewing the smoldering rubble. Thanks to our new volunteer, Neil Laffra, the photo sums up how […]
Update from Kyle Pilon, BIMES President
It was brought to my attention recently that we have not updated our website. So, I write this letter to update you on the goings on at “the Hatchery”. Another quiet and beautiful summer has come and gone in our little corner of the forest. And as the warmth, and the noise of big ski […]
Egg Take and Centennial Salmon Club
‘Twas a busy day at Mossom yesterday. Not only did we put 56,000 pink salmon eggs into our incubation system, but we spawned one of our Mossom cohos. The Centennial School Salmon Project club was there for its regular after school Wednesday work party. The students got a lesson from our DFO community advisor Sandie […]
Leeches from coho spawners
Mossom Creek Hatchery volunteers discovered a great many salmon leeches crawling about in the aluminum Capilano trough in which coho spawners are being held until they are ready to have their eggs and milt taken. The distinct movement of these annelids can be seen as they stretch and contract, attaching alternately with their anterior and […]
Centennial School Salmon Project – Nature of Things, 1983
Documentary, ‘Salmon in the Line’: In 1981, David Suzuki brought his Nature of Things TV show to the banks of Mossom Creek in Port Moody, British Columbia, to film a salmon enhancement project operated by student volunteers at Centennial Senior Secondary in Coquitlam. This after school club has been operating since 1976 and gave birth […]
Mossom Creek Estuary at Dusk
After an extended dry spell, an overnight has attracted many chum salmon to Mossom Creek in Port Moody, BC. Perhaps 100 have moved in so far on the high tide to spawn and they are still coming on low tide at dusk. This is two weeks later than normal.
Port Moody Mayor and Council Tour the Mossom Watershed
On Sunday May 19th, our volunteers were delighted to host a tour for the Mayor and Council of the City of Port Moody. First they visited Mossom Creek Hatchery itself which is located in Mossom Creek Park, Port Moody, adjacent to Bert Flynn Park. At the hatchery they were introduced to this year’s coho fry […]