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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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
Resident cutthroat trout are in Carkeek Park year-round Thousands of salmon fry are released every Spring by CWCAP volunteers and hundreds of adults return in the Fall to spawn. But did you know that there are year-round resident coastal cutthroat (Oncorhynchus clarkii sp.) in the creeks too? Adult cutthroat trout spawn in the Spring and
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