Tynehead Hatchery

07/22/2026

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07/14/2026

Help keep Whirling Disease away from our watersheds! Greatly appreciated!

07/14/2026

Coho Rearing Pond weigh day. All are looking good with a good average weight of 4.6 grams today after three weeks in the pond. Just over 22,000 coho fry this year. They are fed 5 x a week with 1.2 mm pellets. Weight, number of fry and current average pond temperature taken into consideration in determining the amount of food to be fed. We have an earthen pond so they also feed off the natural bug supply that is available.

06/13/2026

Lots of Coho fry hanging out in cool area in the Serpentine River that goes past the Tynehead Hatchery

06/06/2026

Our Coho Rearing Pond was drained and cleaned out by hosing off organic debris. Crayfish that had been living on the bottom were removed and placed into the main river.

We wanted to make sure the pond is ready for the 20,000 Coho fry we have waiting in our Capilano troughs.

Great work by Harold, Glenn and Mina!

05/28/2026

The last two days have been fin clipping time for our Coho fry.

Under the direction of our wonderful DFO Community Advisor, Paul, we clipped the adipose fins of 22,549 Coho fry.

This would not have been possible without the fantastic work of the team leaders from the Salmon Habitat Restoration Program (SHaRP), our own volunteers and others!

We remove the adipose fin primarily due to allow fisher people to identify between wild and hatchery - we can only keep hatchery for the table menu🐟

These clipped Coho will be transferred to our rearing pond in a few weeks where they will live until next May before smelting and heading out to the ocean.

I have put explanations under each photo, so please read.

05/25/2026

We are doing this years fin clipping May 26 and May 27. Gates open to the public to view from 12:30 pm until finished for the day,! Come down and see what we and the wonderful SHaRP team do. And if you want to spend a little time helping, you are more than welcome as we have 20,000 coho fry to clip!

05/22/2026

Last day of our Spring Field trips where our local Surrey schools came to release the Coho they had been raising in their classrooms. A big thank you to the teachers and all the children’s family members who made these trips possible. And a big thank you to all of the volunteers who came in weekly for all of April and May to make these trips a great learning experience: Don, Bob, Connie, Harold, Brian, Carol and our trusty classroom teachers Susan and Linda!

05/21/2026

If you are looking for some great family events……