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[quill]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R_K4C5FBmN0

[Rodney]

I watched that tonight. That is very good exposure for the Seymour River and Seymour Salmonid Society. Its last summer run steelhead was a record high, estimated to be 250+ fish, 2.5 times more than average.

[Fish Assassin]

Thanks for the link. Just caught the tail end of the article on the news.

[redside1]

I watched that tonight. That is very good exposure for the Seymour River and Seymour Salmonid Society. Its last summer run steelhead was a record high, estimated to be 250+ fish, 2.5 times more than average.

that's because they released 2.5 times as many hatchery smolts has usual. For this returning year they had a huge (for the seymour) plant of summer run smolts and it paid off with a great return.

[VAGAbond]

that's because they released 2.5 times as many hatchery smolts has usual. For this returning year they had a huge (for the seymour) plant of summer run smolts and it paid off with a great return.

Interesting.   If they released 5 times as many could they expect 5 times as many back?  Obviously at some point that starts to fail and would even be counterproductive but our rivers used to produce many moire fish.    One wonders if we are not aiming too low.

[blader]

Budget cuts are a huge problem! Why do you think their is less and less hatchery fish in the Vedder every year? Obviously smolt and ocean survival are a big factor but you can't expect the returns to stay the same size if their is constantly less fish being released.

[Rodney]

Budget cuts are a huge problem! Why do you think their is less and less hatchery fish in the Vedder every year? Obviously smolt and ocean survival are a big factor but you can't expect the returns to stay the same size if their is constantly less fish being released.

No.

http://a100.gov.bc.ca/pub/fidq/stockedSpeciesSelect.do

Type in "Chilliwack River" in *Gazetted Name/Alias and read stocking reports first.

[typhoon]

Looks like a high of 131K fish in 2002 down to 99K now 
2002 131K
2003 129K
2004 122K
2005 116K
2006 113K
2007 94K
2008 99K

[Rodney]

ok sorry. What I was implying was that the operation has not changed. Same number of broodstocks has been collected each year, the steelhead hatchery operation for most Fraser Valley systems has not changed much. Number of fish released maybe more related to the fecundity/number of eggs being produced.

http://www.bccf.com/steelhead/