TD Friends grant helps Mossom
A recent grant from the Burnaby-TriCities TD Friends of the Environment Foundation helped the Burrard Inlet Marine Enhancement Society and their Mossom Creek Hatchery develop and deliver aboriginal content for its school field trip programs and create meaningful community interactions at our weekly Salmon Sundays and at several festivals in Port Moody. We are grateful […]
Salmon Sunday Speaker Series
Join us for our Salmon Sunday Speaker Series at Mossom Creek Hatchery. These free events are open to the public and will take place after our Salmon Sunday volunteer hours. The Hatchery is open from 11:00-1:30 every Sunday and then from 1:30-2:30 on days when we have a Sunday speaker. See you there! Introduction to […]
Project Wild Workshop for K-grade 12 Educators
Pro-D Day Workshop Date: April 20, 2018 Time: 9:30am-2:30pm Place: Mossom Creek Hatchery & Education Centre Cost: $35 Workshop: Professional Project Wild presenter, activity guide (121 activities), includes lunch Project Wild: https://hctfeducation.ca/product/project-wild/ Project WILD is an interdisciplinary environmental education program for formal and non-formal educators of young people. The goal of Project WILD is to […]
Free Talk: Beavers in Port Moody!
Mossom Hatchery and Education Center is hosting a talk about beavers and how they interact and live in cities. We have living proof right in our own backyard with the beavers who are building dams in Klahanie and Suterbrook area. Location: Mossom Creek Education Centre Date: Sunday Feb 18th Time: 1 – 2 pm Presented […]
2017 highlights to ring in the new year!
2017 was an amazing year for the Burrard Inlet Marine Enhanement Society and our many Awesome Mossom Creek Hatchery volunteers! Thanks to all those that have supported us throughout the year. (photos and captions generously compiled by Ruth Foster) Neil Laffra, our hatchery manager and vice-president is awarded the 2016 City of Port Moody Environmental […]
Volunteer Assistant Hatchery Manager Needed
Every year Mossom Creek Hatchery works with local volunteers to raise salmon and support BC’s wild salmon runs. This important work has been ongoing for 41 years and has contributed to the re-establishment of healthy runs of coho, chum and pink salmon to the Burrard Inlet area. Be a part of our volunteer team! We […]
The Mossom Creek BioBlitz was a tremendous success
The Mossom Creek BioBlitz, which kicked off on August 18th, 2017, was the first of its kind in the Tri-Cities. The event provided local residents with valuable interactions with local nature and an opportunity to bring scientists together from across the Lower Mainland for an intense period biological study in the Mossom Creek Watershed and surrounding area. […]
A Great Place to Hang Out
Ella Green has been coming to Mossom Creek hatchery since she was a very small child. From the beginning it was a fun and interesting place to explore as she accompanied her mom, Tracy Green (current BIMES President). (It is just so beautiful!) As the years have passed, Ella has personally become very involved with […]
Celebrating 40 years!
This September marks 40 years of stream stewardship and education at Mossom Creek Hatchery! It was the fall of 1976 that teachers Ruth Foster and Rod MacVicar embarked on a student project that would inspire 40 years of hands on environmental work by thousands of students and community volunteers. Together, we’ve made incredible progress restoring and protecting Port […]
School Groups Galore!
by Cleone Todgham and Cecily Baptist It’s been an active, noisy Spring at Mossom Creek as hundreds of students experienced nature directly. “I found the spleen!” (Grade 11 student, while dissecting a salmon) “Uh, things inside the slimy ball are moooooving!” (Grade 2 student, while using hydroscope to watch a salamander egg mass) “Male and female […]