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If you are free on Saturday May 16, 2026 between 10:00 am and 1:00 pm, you can release a Coho salmon smolt into the Goldstream River. Meet at the Goldstream day use area. Free to attend but donations are always welcome. See you there!  The State of Salmon Report brings together clear, reliable information on how salmon are doing across British Columbia and the Yukon. Its purpose is to help everyone who cares about salmon — including volunteers, community groups, and local organizations — understand the bigger picture, see where efforts are making a difference, and identify where more help is needed. By sharing a common set of facts, the report supports informed conversations and collective action to protect and rebuild salmon for the future. The Pacific Salmon Foundation has recently released their new report for 2025. You can download the report, or browse though it using the interactive features, by following this link or by clicking the image below.  Each fall the hatchery hosts multiple school site visits. Connecting school age children to the importance of salmon to our local ecosystem is critical. Check out this video filmed by CTV showing what a school tour looks like and the excitement of these youngsters.
A tribute to Peter McCully, our friend and mentor, who passed away in June 2025 here.  Photo: Tony Bounsall Photo Design Twenty GVSEA members and familes chose a perfect day to hop on a bus and tour the watershed and infrastructure that provide delicious potable water for most of the Capital Regional District. CRD tour guides Cat and Zoe facilitated an excellent six-hour orientation of the lands, reservoirs and treatment plants. Wildlife sightings included a yearling deer and a herd of Roosevelt elk. CRD offers this tour free of charge. For more information, go here. Nice bus, too.
Andrew Young’s Saturday crew loaded his truck with about 200 carcasses for the annual “Salmon Carcass Transplant” at the Mt. Douglas Creek outdoor classroom. A beautiful day greeted at least 100 participants, including media and a number of politicians from three levels of government. The carcasses aid the rejuvenation of Mt. Douglas Creek as a healthy salmon-bearing stream. Many thanks to Andrew and the Saturday crew. Assisting onsite were Julia Jupp, Grant McKenzie, Gladys Schreiner, Antoine Hebert-Breton and Laura Gillis. Project Sponsor: PKOLS – Mount Douglas Conservancy.
This project received just over 15,000 eyed Goldstream Chum eggs. Jamie Zwicker, Grant McKenzie and Don Lowen attended along with project volunteers and Municipality of Saanich staff. The Conservancy has a long history of volunteer engagement - enhancing habitat, elevating public awareness, and increasing salmon returns to a park given to Saanich in 1889. Project sponsor: PKOLS – Mount Douglas Conservancy
Bill Thomas and Brian Canfield transported 32,315 eyed Goldstream Chum eggs to the Lyall Creek instream project. Rick Jones has been the mainstay for this project for over 35 years. Project Sponsor: Lyall Creek Salmon and Trout Enhancement Project.
 Don Lowen and Erika Godfrey transported 3,800 eyed Goldstream Chum and 2,040 eyed Goldstream Coho eggs to the Cusheon Creek Hatchery on Saltspring Island. Kathy Reimer, centre, has managed this volunteer hatchery for close to 40 years, and has initiated a number of habitat improvement projects on the Southern Gulf Islands. Riley-Rae Kelly, left, was one of three Cusheon Creek volunteers who recently visited our hatchery.
Don Lowen and Andrew Young delivered 18,350 eyed Goldstream Chum eggs to the Friends of Bowker Creek Initiative’s instream project. At least 10 volunteers greeted us at the site, including retired DFO hatchery manager Dave Ewart! The Society is dedicated to the recovery of Bowker Creek, including the re-establishment of a healthy annual chum return. Project Sponsor - Friends of Bowker Creek Society, Oak Bay, BC.  |
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