Shuswap Your Classified Connection / Vol. 26 No. 37 Sept. 11, 2015
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Channels help fish go upriver By Martha Wickett
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Chinook salmon are getting lots of support from their human backers. Fisheries staff and volunteers wearing hip waders and carrying sand bags have been helping to consolidate smaller channels in the Salmon River delta into one deeper one to help fish make it upriver to spawn. Ron Pederson, president of the Salmon Arm Fish & Game Club, says Fisheries and Oceans Canada contacted him in order to line up more help on the delta, should it be needed. “You can only do a little bit of work at a time, otherwise it disturbs the water too much...,” he says. “It’s a pretty hard job to do; you have hip waders on and when you walk you’re sinking almost up to your knees.” Hank Shelley with the Fish & Game Club, who worked in fisheries for 24 years, says he remembers a similar low-water problem in 2003, when about a quarter mile of channel was dug with shovels and sand-bagged. Meanwhile, upriver at Gene Puetz’s fish-counting gate on his farm in Silver Creek, he’s seen about 100 fish so far this season. “They’re trickling in,” he says, noting the fish hatchery in Merritt has a target of collecting 25 brood pairs. The hatchery, which can produce a better eggsto-fry ratio, strips the eggs and milk and fertilizes the eggs. They hatch from January to March and are eventually released back into the Salmon River. The hatchery took 14 fish late last week and See Heat on page 2
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