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2018 Salmon Imprinting Season Summary at Carkeek Park, Venema Creek

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Each spring, 4 batches of Chum salmon are delivered to the Imprint Pond at Carkeek Park to be imprinted by CWCAP Salmon Imprint Stewards.  21 lead Imprint Stewards and 13 regular Imprint Stewards, care for, feed, and oversee the Imprinting System from January to May.  With fish provided by the Suquamish Tribe’s Grovers Creek Salmon Hatchery, CWCAP releases nearly 100,000 imprinted salmon fry into Venema Creek.  Imprinting will give these fish the best chance at returning to their home waters in the Pipers and Venema Creeks in 3 to 5 years to spawn.  Below is a table that summarizes CWCAP‘s imprinting activities for 2018.

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Salmon in the Schools fish are arriving at Carkeek Park

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Public, private, and home schools participating in the Salmon in the Schools —Seattle program are now moving their school fish to the Salmon Imprint Pond at Carkeek Park.  From Monday March 26 to Friday, March 30, 11 schools have already taken field trips to Carkeek Park to participate in scavenger hunts focused on salmon life cycles and water quality questions.  Each student then gets to personally introduce a few of their school salmon fry into the imprint pond where they will be cared for through early May before their final release into Venema Creek.

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New salmon fry are hungry and feeding

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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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Salmon typically begin returning to Carkeek Park in late October…

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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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School-raised fish are now on their way,
ending the 2017 imprinting season at Carkeek Park

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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

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