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. […]
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 […]
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 […]
Natural beauty
It’s all in the details. Walking around Mossom Creek, most of us notice the trees. (They are hard to miss!) The next time you visit the Hatchery, take a moment to stroll around the area and look closely at the smaller plants. How many berry producing plants can you find, such as salmonberry, elderberry, or […]
Especially for educators
Teachers from 13 schools recently attended an Open House at the Mossom Creek Hatchery. The new facility is an ideal location for a wide variety of activities where students can personally engage in the natural world around them. Under the leadership of Program Coordinator, Cleone Todgham, curriculum based, experiential programs will be available for student […]