What is the plan for steelhead propagation?
The Ministry of Environment is implementing a limited steelhead hatchery propagation program on the Cheakamus River for 2006 and 2007. Ten pairs of fish were collected for gamete harvesting in 2006 with the goal of releasing 20,000 smolts in 2007. The eggs and fry will be raised under protocols established and implemented by the Freshwater Fisheries Society of BC. The smolts produced through this program will eventually augment the wild adult spawners in 2009 and 2010. The Ministry of Environment will release further details of the program as they become available.
