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Fishing in British Columbia => General Discussion => Topic started by: aquaboy24 on August 19, 2007, 10:34:24 AM

Title: Sockeye hatchery?
Post by: aquaboy24 on August 19, 2007, 10:34:24 AM

Hi everyone - so I am sitting here pondering the fate of these wonderful fish, and I had to ask a question

do any hatcheries produce sockeye? If so, should the government, or various departments responsible not begin promoting a hatchery program for sockeye? Do they not do well int he hatchery program?

my two cents - thanks
Vince

Title: Re: Sockeye hatchery?
Post by: Old Black Dog on August 19, 2007, 04:13:50 PM

Cultus and Sakinaw are already in hatcherys to name a couple.
Big dollars, lots of problems.

Title: Re: Sockeye hatchery?
Post by: BwiBwi on August 20, 2007, 05:23:13 PM

Used to be many sockeye hatchery in the past.  It's costs more than regular chinook, coho, chum, pink hatchery.  Sockeye has a common kidney disease that require very labour intensive care in handling process, so not to spread the disease.

Unlike our neighbouring FN bands (Sto:lo and Cheam in particular), many of the northern FN bands partake salmon habitat and restoration projects.  Emily Creek - by Heitsuk Band is involved in sockeye habitat restoration and hatchery program (started in 1977), and Kitasoo First Nationss - Victor Creek, Oweekeno Nation - Wannock River, Snootli Creek Hatchery (1979).

Title: Re: Sockeye hatchery?
Post by: newsman on August 21, 2007, 09:38:09 PM

There was a large one on the upper Pitt River. The same government department that wants us to believe that fish farms are not harming our wild salmon, and that global warming is root of all our fish stock problems, closed it. Why? They said we don't need it.

Title: Re: Sockeye hatchery?
Post by: bkk on August 21, 2007, 10:15:43 PM

 The Pitt Hatchery was closed for health and safety reasons as it would have cost too much to fix the infrastructure. That being said, all of the sockeye that were produced there are now produced at Inch Creek hatchery in Mission. That facility was expanded to accomendate Pitt and endangered Cultus sockeye. I don't know who said we don't need it but that is incorrect. The work is still being done, just from a different site.

Title: Re: Sockeye hatchery?
Post by: clarki on August 21, 2007, 10:17:26 PM

There are no socks at Inch Creek.

Title: Re: Sockeye hatchery?
Post by: BwiBwi on August 21, 2007, 10:36:02 PM

Clarki's right, Inch does not produce any sockeye, it's focus' in coho, chinook, chum, steelhead production.   The only place in LM that are into sockeye is the Weaver Creek Spawning Channel, and the very limited hatchery production for Cultus Lake.

Title: Re: Sockeye hatchery?
Post by: clarki on August 22, 2007, 08:58:05 AM

No clarki is wrong.

http://www-comm.pac.dfo-mpo.gc.ca/pages/mediacentre/pittriver_e.htm (http://www-comm.pac.dfo-mpo.gc.ca/pages/mediacentre/pittriver_e.htm)  Read the final paragraph.

My apologies bkk, I stand corrected.

Title: Re: Sockeye hatchery?
Post by: rln on August 22, 2007, 09:46:32 AM

seeing that bbk works for DFO (and has for 20 something years I think) at the Tenderfoot creek hatchery on the Cheakamus, I would venture to guess his info is bang on like he usually is on issues involving DFO on the lower mainland

Title: Re: Sockeye hatchery?
Post by: BwiBwi on August 22, 2007, 12:25:47 PM

Oh wow, for once it's good to be wrong, 1 more sockeye hatchery.