On Tuesday, January 16th, the Suquamish Tribe’s Fisheries truck brought 35,000 Chum salmon fry to the Imprint Pond at Carkeek Park. Fish are fed 3 times a day, 7 days a week. While the fish are here, they eventually become imprinted with the mineral and chemical smell/memory of the park’s Piper’s Creek Watershed. This process […]
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There are 30,000 Chum salmon eggs incubating at Carkeek Park right now!
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Each November, nearly 30 public and private elementary schools kick off their participation in Salmon in the Schools (SISseattle.org) by visiting Carkeek Park. Here they observe, discuss, and learn in a great outdoor classroom about water quality and salmon returning to spawn. With organizational and educational programming support from Seattle Public Utilities (SPU), more than 2
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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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Click here for more salmon videos! As of this writing (11-28-17) , there are fewer live fish than dead fish in the creeks. Most of the viewing areas along Piper’s Creek have salmon to observe in shallow clear waters (when it’s not raining a lot). Don’t forget that there is a population of year-round, resident
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