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March 2013

The temperature is rising! The water hit ten degrees Celsius at Duck Lake today.We now have Chinook in our raceways at Duck Lake after repairs were made. Here is a look back at March 2013

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Osprey

What an amazing bird! Incredible camera footage!! http://www.youtube.com/embed/nA3LtXnNIto?feature=player_embedded    

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February 2013

    A HUGE Thank You to Grieg Seafood! They have  again generously donated $5000 to the Powell River Salmon Society. These funds will go directly towards fish food for our hatchery. Here is a link to our Monthly Report for February 2013    

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“How” and “When”

This video is close to a half hour in length. It is dedicated to our supporters. For those of you that take the time to watch all of it I am confident that you will appreciate it as a humble record of some of our history. It is the “how” and “when”. The Lang Creek [...]

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A Part Of Our History

Here is a link to a video from  past Powell River Salmon Society fish production operations. This video takes us back more than 20 years ago  to a day that predates our Lang Creek Sorting Facility. To a day where we used a fish trap to enumerate the river and capture our broodstock. We also had [...]

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Kelly Creek School

I want to share the Kelly Creek School News Letter that went out recently. Thank you to Dianne Sanford and our volunteers that help make our classroom incubator program such a success.   Cheers   Shane

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A Glimpse Back

Our community often asks questions about our Lang Creek Brood Facility. We are  asked how long our “tanks” at Lang Bay have been in service. How did they come into being? In the coming weeks we are hoping to upload some video footage of the work that was carried out 20 years ago ! This [...]

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January 2013

Powell River Salmon Society primary hatchery operations are now focused on rearing. Here is our January 2013 monthly update.   Cheers   Shane

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Herring Spawn Season

Herring Spawn season is Fast Approaching The Sunshine Coast Friends of Forage Fish volunteer group would like to once again inform the public –especially all those gardeners, that herring spawn season is upon us! As a practice, mulching is great, but when one chooses seaweed as a mulch, a series of thoughtful decisions should be [...]

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Dirty Water Dangerous Fish

This is hard to believe. We should all make an effort to understand what fish we are consuming and where it is coming from. Check out the link  http://vimeo.com/11817894

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