It’s #FieldWorkFriday
This week kicked off with our monthly Coastal Waterbirds Survey and Pinniped Survey. The flocks of waterbirds are increasing! We saw many Red necked grebes, Common loons and Pacific loons inside the harbour. Outside the harbour we saw one raft of Surf scoters as well as Harbour seals and two Steller sea lions. We lucked out with the weather. It was a fabulous day to be on the water!
We are seeing an increase of Coho salmon and a decrease of Chum salmon in our Salmon Escapement surveys. Last week we counted 23 Coho salmon and 594 Chum salmon in Anderson Creek and 59 Coho salmon and 264 Chum salmon in Myers Creek. This brings our total for the season to:
Anderson Creek - 1575 Chum salmon and 39 Coho salmon.
Myers Creek - 818 Chum salmon and 68 Coho salmon.
We are continuing with our Pacific sand lance (PSL) checks at Baker Beach. So far we have not seen any evidence of spawning but it should be very soon. Please let us know if you see any activity in the water or any fish strandings on the beach.
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