We have started to move fish from our Mill Hatchery into the Duck Lake Hatchery. These fish will now rear and imprint on the Lang Creek watershed ! When loading the fish into a transport tank we make use of a fish pump. Here is a video of the “fish pumping”. http://youtu.be/W_KRq8y0NH0   Cheers Shane [...]

After the eggs have been shocked a machine is used to do the initial dead egg picking. All other dead egg picking is done manually and is carried out on a daily basis. This machine is known as a Jensorter and makes use of a photocell that can tell weather or not the egg is transparent [...]

Hello Salmon Enhancement Community! I think some of you will find this short video link interesting. With the primary incubation process well under way now at the Mill Hatchery we have been shocking our egg production. A mechanical shock is provided during a procedure where we siphon the eggs into a bucket to break the [...]

Last week was another busy one at Lang Creek. The Chum in particular poured it on Friday and Saturday with totals now over 16 000! Our crew worked hard to capture another few Chinook of which the eggs were stripped and taken to our Mill Hatchery. With so many Chum returning and the water flows low, many of [...]

Here is a short clip of our new sill working at Lang Creek. http://www.youtube.com/user/prsalmon1#p/a/u/0/SrAsWXDQyYY  

Hello Salmon Enhancement Community. Just a quick update to let you all know that there has been a wave of Chinook come into Lang Creek over the last 24hrs. There is now over 1300 Chinook that have returned and 2300 Coho. Pink numbers are at 1400. Our crews have been working around the clock to insure the [...]