7pm on Wednesday, 17th February 2021
The Port Moody Ecological Society will for 2021, host their AGM using the Zoom Teleconference platform in Webinar format – see below for details to register.
As well as providing an overview of the activities of the Society in 2020, the current Board will be dissolved and a new Board elected for the coming year.
The guest speaker this year will be Dr. Brett van Poorten, an Assistant Professor with the School of Resource and Environmental Management at Simon Fraser University with a relevant and topical subject.
7pm on Wednesday, 17th February 2021
The Port Moody Ecological Society will for 2021, host their AGM using the Zoom Teleconference platform in Webinar format – see below for details to register.
As well as providing an overview of the activities of the Society in 2020, the current Board will be dissolved and a new Board elected for the coming year.
The guest speaker this year will be Dr. Brett van Poorten, an Assistant Professor with the School of Resource and Environmental Management at Simon Fraser University with a relevant and topical subject.
Life goes on – and nature has it’s ways. Everything has a purpose for all species – except for us humans, who have selfishly determined that we are better than any other animal and have turned the natural order of things on their head! Apparently we think the laws of nature don’t apply to us. But I digress………………. 🙂
After the fish have done their thing, they die, decompose and become nutrients for not only creek organisms, but all sorts of fauna and flora in the environment. Do you know that certain nitrogen elements from returning oceanic salmonids have been found in trees and plants many kilometres from any creek or river? The Pacific Salmon is one of the key species on this planet. The nutrients they give back to the earth sustain life on this planet far more than anyone would ordinarily think.
We had some really cool visitors spotted near the hatchery in the last few weeks – one quite elusive for the area!
Red-Legged Frog: Even though Port Moody is in the habitat area defined for these critters, they are rarely seen (and endangered) – so this was a real find!!
After much discussion (and a very warm and dry Summer), a trip to the lake was organised to facilitate the supplementing of water flow into Noons Creek from Cypress Lake. The creek had almost come to a standstill with extremely low flow – in fact the creek gauge above the hatchery intake is now out of the water entirely.
As the valving at the Cypress Lake dam is still not operational, a plan was devised to syphon some water from the dam into the small tributary of Noons Creek that stems from the dam’s spillway. The following ingredients were needed:
A bunch of our amazing volunteers helped out last Saturday (6th June) by putting the shade cloth on our rearing pond so the young Coho fry don’t get sun-stroke – thanks guys!!!
And then the same amazing volunteers transferred the said Coho fry into the pond from the tank where they were living temporarily inside the hatchery.
All this under the watchful eye of hatchery stalwart, Eric Olsen.
Fun in the sun – nothing better – so come on down and be a part of our educational and fun activities!!!
For a scheduled date of Wednesday 27th May 2015, the Port Moody Ecological Society called upon some volunteers to help with our annual Coho Salmon fry adipose fin-clipping (around 9,500 of them!).
Special thanks to those volunteers that could make it on the day – to clip them before they are transferred to our rearing pond for the next 12 months while they smolt in readiness for their long journey to the Pacific.
Thought our friends and supporters would like to see the more unusual inhabitants of our duck pond – found over the last few months.
We have some salamanders, newts, sculpins……….and of course the usual assortment of feathered beings as well!