Fall Life In The River

Posted on November 15, 2020 by admin
Notice the difference in the size of the fish!
Watch them appear and disappear.
Is that a fish or a log?
I could watch for hours!
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Coho fry

Posted on May 15, 2020 by admin

Slowly releasing our Coho fry back into their home of the Serpentine River. All healthy and some already taking bugs off the surface of the water!

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Small but mighty Coho fry in our Hatchery. Feeding well and looking

Posted on May 15, 2020 by admin

Lots of mouths to feed here!

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Our New Year babies!!

Posted on May 15, 2020 by admin


Who can see the Coho alevin? Who can see the eggs hatching to Alevin?

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Salmon in the Classroom Coho release

Posted on May 15, 2020 by admin

We would usually be having our local school groups releasing their young Coho salmon with all their students who were involved in raising Tynehead Hatchery Coho eggs to the fry stage. Thanks to the help of our volunteers, teachers are bringing their salmon babies to be released back into the Serpentine River. A BIG thank you to all the students and their teachers who have done a wonderful job in raising these salmon. We miss the students but look forward to seeing all next year!

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Coho Alevins

Posted on May 15, 2020 by admin

Our Coho babies have almost all hatched to the Alevin stage. Those are yolk sacs on their tummies-food for the next month. As this yolk sac gets absorbed, they will slowly turn into a fry salmon. At this point these babes would still be in their “redd” in the river

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Coho Smolts head out to the ocean

Posted on May 15, 2020 by admin

50,000 Coho smolts. Returned to the Serpentine River. Smolts are just over a year old and will head directly to the ocean. Inch creek takes a portion of our Coho eggs and raise them to smolt stage for us. Usually we disperse these babies throughout the Serpentine rivershed and only a portion are released at the Tynehead hatchery- primarily at our annual salmon send off. Unfortunately, COVID changed that this year. So see how many you can count in this footage!

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Invasive Species fish!

Posted on May 15, 2020 by admin

This small carp was found in one of our fish ponds which means that it found its way into the Serpentine River by being released into the river. Please remind all you know not to be releasing any type of fish into urban rivers. Invasive species multiply and take over the natural inhabitants. We all want to keep our Salmon.

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Volunteers Play In The Mud at Tynehead Hatchery!

Posted on May 15, 2020 by admin

There’s not many times you will see full grown men and women (many of them seniors!) playing in the mud! With the Help from Our Community Partners our volunteers were turned into kids again this spring! All thanks to Major Project at Tynehead Hatchery that was Accomplished this spring.

Part of caring and raising salmon is ensuring a healthy habitat for them to live in. The Tynehead ponds had gathered a large amount of organic debris that was needed to be removed to allow a healthy, livable environment for our fish.

A big THANK YOU to the following in this two-week project that removed 190 cu loads of organic matter (far more than we had estimated)

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Spring 2020

Posted on May 14, 2020 by admin

There was a lot of stuff happening this spring:

Coho Alevins

https://www.facebook.com/HatcheryTynehead/videos/499484974272326/?t=5

Chinook Salmon fry at the Hatchery ready for release back into the Serpentine.

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