Can you help Mossom? These students did!
Video made by Heritage Woods students could help the Port Moody hatchery win $10,000 to continue education work. Diane Strandberg / Tri City News October 28, 2015 11:16 AM You can cast votes to help hatchery win $10k award Mossom Creek Hatchery is getting a helping hand from some Heritage Woods secondary students in a […]
Fall egg take!
Photographs and Story by Brian Henke The following story and photographs are from an egg take at the Alouette River, followed by pictures of the subsequent egg fertilization at Mossom Creek Hatchery on October 28th, 2015.
Planning New Programs
How do you take the best from the past 40 years and extend it to a wider community? As Mossom Creek Hatchery settles into its new facility, the Board of Directors is defining their vision for the future. As part of that process, the Board recently hired Cleone Todgham for a three month term as […]
Kyle Pilon Volunteer Extraodinaire
It’s a typical Sunday workday at Mossom Creek Hatchery and Kyle Pilon (Past President) is working with an assortment of pliers and wires, trying to recreate an important tool lost in the fire (an egg picker for pulling dead eggs out of the Heath tray baskets). In a way this epitomizes Kyle’s involvement with the […]
New Spawning Pools – Just in Time!
The season’s first salmon were spotted at the estuary of Mossom Creek on September 1st. This year’s return is especially exciting as they arrived about a week after the completion of new spawning pools! In August, a core group of amazing volunteers worked hard on a project that has been a long time in […]
Mossom welcomes visitors from China
Tricity News: Mossom Creek hatchery welcomes visitors from a university in Northern China (Diane Strandberg – Tri City News – August 14, 2015) Back home in northeastern China, Amy Jiang and Nancy Wang teach tourism and English at Yanbian University. But while in Port Moody last week they were bug detectives. The two were among […]
‘What’s Next’ with President Tracy Green
In May 2015, Tracy Green was elected President of the Burrard Inlet Marine Enhancement Society (Mossom Creek Hatchery). Involved, effective, community focused…these are just a few things that come to mind when talking to Tracy. She works in Marketing and Communications for United Way, is busy with her young family, and yet always finds time to […]
Fin Clipping – What’s It All About?
A group of Mossom Creek volunteers spent Thursday morning (June 25th) clipping very tiny adipose fins from the hatchery’s coho fingerlings. It is one of those tasks that requires very close attention, yet the rewards are many. For the volunteers, it is an opportunity to support the hatchery’s work, socialize with other people, and engage […]
Two Terrific Volunteers!
The New Mossom Creek Hatchery and Educational Centre is open. Building this new facility was a large, complicated undertaking for a volunteer organization, but fortunately the right volunteers with the right skills showed up at just the right time. Of particular note are two individuals who played key roles throughout the construction. Mel Steemson has […]
Civic Award to Pat Dennett
(Volunteer Construction Manager, Pat Dennett has been awarded the Exemplary Civic Service Award by the City of Port Moody. The following is an extract from Acting Mayor Diana Dilworth’s speech announcing the award at the ribbon cutting ceremony for the new Mossom Creek Hatchery on May 21, 2015). “In 2012, the City created an Exemplary […]