Topic: Salmon return to Bon Accord Creek in Surrey (Read 4170 times)

Woody Debris · « **on:** November 27, 2023, 02:17:21 PM »

This one hits close to home. I grew up very close to Bon Accord Creek spending time with friends exploring it's ravine & walking right to where it entered the Fraser beside the Port Mann Bridge. I saw the odd trout in there but salmon had been blocked by a massive culvert that had a flat bottom. It was too shallow and too fast for fish to pass it. There were people in the neighbour could remember salmon in the creek but not by the time my family moved there.

Some sort of baffle system as been installed and fish can now pass the culvert into the ravine. Some links:

https://vancouver.citynews.ca/2023/11/25/salmon-return-to-surrey-creek-for-first-time-in-70-years/#:~:text=Posted%20November%2025%2C%202023%208,Surrey's%20Bon%20Accord%20Creek%20again.

https://globalnews.ca/video/10114719/crucial-salmon-passage-restored-in-surrey

https://www.instagram.com/p/CxJmofRP4EP/

canoeboy · « **Reply #1 on:** November 28, 2023, 06:12:11 AM »

This type of news is so heartening to hear.

RalphH · « **Reply #2 on:** November 28, 2023, 07:52:38 AM »

RalphH · « **Reply #3 on:** November 28, 2023, 07:53:10 AM »