Bill and Sylvia from Grovers Creek Salmon Hatchery delivered 35,000 new Chum salmon fry on March 9, 2018. Thank you Suquamish Tribe! This 2nd batch of fish, as did our 1st batch, came directly off the incubation trays at the hatchery. These new fish are the end-of-the-2017-Chum-salmon-run fish; meaning, the adult spawners from which these […]
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As anyone who visited can tell you, the last half of November was amazing in Carkeek Park. The 2017 Fall run saw about 17% more Chum salmon (338) compared to 2016 (240). The numbers in the chart below give a quick overview of how exciting it was around the middle of November and how robust
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Amazingly, salmon return every fall to spawn in Pipers Creek Watershed. This is an all-too-rare success story in urban creeks that is well worth witnessing and learning more about. A few Chum and Coho salmon were sighted as early as October 19 this year. More fish, if they’re gathering in numbers out in the Sound, will
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Salmon fry released 3-5 years ago from the CWCAP and SIS salmon programs return in late October. Over the last several years, first sightings of salmon in Piper’s Creek have occurred in late October. Following that general pattern, peaks in numbers of adults occur in mid-to-late November with numbers of new arrivals tapering off towards the
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A lot of weather people came out to Carkeek Park Saturday, May 13th — in the rain of course — to wish almost 5,500 school-raised fish a safe journey down Venema Creek to Piper’s Creek, to Puget Sound, and eventually to the Pacific Ocean. Each of these well cared for fish has a chance now
