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Centennial secondary school teacher Melanie Mattson with some of the members of the school’s Salmon Project Club at the Mossom Creek Hatchery, which is under construction after a devastating fire last December. The students recently took part in an egg take on the Alouette River to collect salmon eggs to stock Mossom Creek when the hatchery re-opens next spring and are helping to raise money to outfit the building.
MOSSOM CREEK HATCHERY
Salmon club going strong Students stick to salmon work as hatchery built DiAnE STrAnDbErg The Tri-CiTy News
You would think the Centennial secondary school Salmon Project Club
would have disbanded long ago. With no Mossom Creek hatchery to work in and only a concrete shell and a construction site where the original single-story education centre was before it burned down last year, you might think the high school kids would have moved on to other pursuits.
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You would be wrong. In fact, the students continue to meet and just a few weeks ago were at the Alouette River collecting brood stock and learning to fertilize eggs for future Mossom salmon. The club is also fundraising for books and technology for the new building, selling “I Survived the Fire” t-shirts
and “Socks for Salmon.” For 38 years, the salmon project has operated at the school, with the original founders Rod MacVicar and Ruth Foster, and now Melanie Mattson, teaching hundreds of teenagers how to run a hatchery and care for B.C.’s iconic species. The students say working at Mossom has helped them
understand the importance of fish to the health of the environment, and although disappointed the hatchery has been out of commission since last December because of the fire, they are pleased to see a new hatchery rising on the original site.
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