Category Archives: Nature

Fraser River Discovery Centre Hosts Indigenous Salmon Fishing, Drying Tours

The Fraser River Discovery Centre in New Westminster, BC, had several tours today sharing First Nations fishing and fish-preserving techniques.

It was interesting learning about the cleaning, filleting, and wind-drying process to preserve salmon, and we got to try our hands out sharpening Indigenous tools.

Fraser River Discovery Centre salmon processing
An exercise sorting cleaning, filleting and wind drying into proper order.


Wind-dried salmon


Sharpening tools


Checking out the BC watersheds map, with a focus on the mighty Fraser River


The protected White Sturgeon


Yep, these massive, ancient (both in terms of time on Earth, and lifespan) fish come from such tiny eggs. Amazing!

Father’s Day Fish Release at Rice Lake, North Vancouver

The Seymour Salmonid Society and Metro Vancouver hosted the annual Father’s Day trout release at Rice Lake on Vancouver’s north shore.

This is a super event with lots of other stewardship groups represented. Great fun to see kids so excited about releasing fish — and, um, getting a chance to try fishing, too .

rice lake trout release
Now that’s a huge Seymour watershed 3D map!


Seymour Salmonid Society hatchery tour


The Seymour watershed provides a good chunk of Metro Vancouver’s drinking water, and is a pristine, protected area.


Heading down to the lake for the trout release


Fishing gear to borrow for free to try your hand. It’s great to see urban kids so excited to release fish, and yes, try to catch one, too!


Yumi waiting for a trout to release. She got one the last ones.


What a beauty!


Interesting hitchhiker as we walked the lake loop trail.

Victoria Coast and Ferry

Some more shots as we headed up to the ferry from Victoria, BC, after last weekend’s SEHAB meeting.

Victoria BC coast
Coast watcher. . .


Lots of deer right in town


Views of Mt. Baker in WA


Heading down to the shore to check out tide pools


A moody evening on the ferry back to the mainland


Rain — that means we must be getting close to home : – )

SEHAB Tours Victoria Stewardship Projects

The Salmonid Enhancement and Habitat Advisory Board to Canada’s Dept of Fisheries and Oceans held a 3-day meeting in Victoria, BC, last weekend. We had an opportunity to tour some local stewardship projects.

SEHAB Millstream stewardship projects Victoria
Cool remote instream fish monitoring system


Checking out fish ladders


Listening to an overview of what we’re going to see


Board members and local volunteers


It takes a lot of partners to make projects like this happen.


That’s a huge culvert blocking fish passage


Ian of the Penninsula Streams Society and also a SEHAB board member, explains the challenges of the project to install a stepped fish ladder. Planning, engineering, and fundraising are well underway.