Welcome to pearson ecological
- November 16, 2018
2 Stailes Spawners
November 16, 2018
- November 19, 2018
2 Wingfield Monitoring
November 19, 2018 - November 20, 2018
- November 20, 2018
2 Wingfield Monitoring
November 19, 2018 - November 20, 2018
- November 21, 2018
2 Earthwise Monitoring
November 21, 2018 - November 22, 2018
- November 22, 2018
2 Earthwise Monitoring
November 21, 2018 - November 22, 2018
- November 23, 2018
R Spawners Chester
November 23, 2018
- November 24, 2018
Wingfield Planting
November 24, 2018
- November 28, 2018
2 Coquitlam spawners
November 28, 2018
Update on the mystery salmon from Surrey Bend.
Rick Taylor at UBC thinks it is a 'black' kokanee - which is one rare fish indeed. Only a few populations known in the world. One in Japan and a few in BC - BC ones are near Lillooet, in Seton Lake and Anderson Lake and, at least historically, in Marion Lake in Alouette system. What it would be doing in a ditch at Surrey Bend is anyone's guess. With just the photo, we can't be 100% sure, but the body form does look very much like a kokanee, as was pointed out by Dan Eaton.
See www.nrcresearchpress.com/doi/pdf/10.1139/cjfas-2015-0145
Caught this tiny Jack today in Surrey Bend
Just 100 g!
Could it have not gone to salt water?
Cute
Man that’s a funny looking salmon is it a coho
Looks like you may have a residualised Chinook there. I have seen this happen with Coho on the Island. I can't help but wonder if the stresses to habitat and climate, when combined with genetic pollution from hatchery fish, have worked to yield observations such as this. It is poorly studied but there is widespread suspicion of increased jack behaviour in several hatchery augmented wild Pacific salmon populations.
Tree Planting!!
Our new restoration site at Wingfield Creek is a little barren!
Will you help us plant it up?
Saturday November 24, 10 am
Site tours, fish identification, and (if we are lucky) spawning salmon!
48753 Chilliwack Lake Road
(across from Tractorgrease Cafe)
Funded by grants from Pacific Salmon Foundation and Habitat Stewardship Program for Species at Risk to the Fraser Valley Conservancy.
Came across these sparring male Chum while doing spawning surveys in Or Creek, Coquitlam.
