Our Heroes of 2015
For 40 years Mossom Creek has seen dedicated students and volunteers show up and help make a difference on a local creek and the surrounding watershed that feeds into the Port Moody Arm of the Burrard Inlet. The Burrard Inlet Marine Enhancement Society is grateful for the generous support that has helped build and then rebuild […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
A Conversation with Founders Rod MacVicar and Ruth Foster
“Nature is for education. Walk along a brook, listen to the babbling sound, look around, observe. Being in the field instills an appreciation, understanding, and love for what’s around you.” (Rod MacVicar). This philosophy is the basis for Rod MacVicar and Ruth Foster’s innovative, educational leadership for the past 40+ years. In 1976 Rod and […]
The Fish Are Here!
Some 47,200 chum fry were welcomed to Mossom Creek Hatchery on Wednesday, March 18th, thanks to delivery by Fisheries and Oceans Canada and the Alouette River Hatchery, the facility that reared them for Mossom. A second batch of 50,000 is expected shortly, as well as 5000 coho. The hatchery will begin releasing the chum into […]
Wild Discovery at Mossom
While construction is underway at the Mossom Creek Hatchery site, there are ever present reminders of the amazing wildlife that this pristine watershed supports. Construction crew, supervisors and hatchery volunteers encounter creatures on a daily basis. Check out these wild finds the month of October 2014 A tiny wild visitor spotted by one of the construction […]
Salmon Return Oct 2014
Hatchery volunteer and resident photographer, Neil Laffra, filmed our first few salmon returning to Mossom Creek this past week. It’s an amazing site to see these mature adult Chum return to their home creek. When volunteers did a creek walk, they counted 13 chum between the old cedar to above Ioco. They’re back!
Major Grant from Pacific Salmon Foundation
The Mossom Creek Hatchery and Education rebuild project has made considerable progress over the past 10 months. All levels of government, non-profit organizations, corporations, local businesses and extraordinary citizens have helped make our speedy recovery possible. Every great project needs a strong start. Our strong start came in early spring when the Pacific Salmon Foundation […]