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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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2017 – a year in review

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2017 began with the natural and exciting imperative to build from the passing of Nancy Malmgren and Bill Hagen at the end of 2016.  Their visions, leadership, and successes are the near magic from which so much has sprouted and continues to bloom.  Thank you, Nancy and Bill, so very much. January 5, 2017: The

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Salmon return to Carkeek Park to spawn in big numbers

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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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