Fish fence guides salmon into collection box.
Welcome to new volunteers and members who have recently signed up.
Brooklyn Creek Watershed Society has had a very successful counting year and want to thank all the great volunteers who give up their time to count (and release unharmed) the trapped fish in the morning and evenings every day for over a month. 2026 is the Watershed Society’s most successful year to date.
Saturday June 6 at 10:30 AM at the Baybrook Nature Park bridge we will be celebrating our volunteers biggest-ever record year for the smolt count. Come and see where and how we count salmon heading out to sea and hear how you can help continue the Brooklyn Creek salmon recovery. The brand-new fish capture box was so well designed by the BCWS team that it has been referred as the “Cadillac” of fish boxes!
The last ‘big year’ was 2023 where 2,700 smolts were counted and released, and 2026 is so far well over 5,000! For a small creek like Brooklyn (flowing through 3 jurisdictions) this result is quite amazing, and goes to show that continual ongoing efforts to improve salmon-rearing conditions can pay off in a reward like this year’s count. In two years we will hopefully see those coho return in big numbers to spawn and continue the cycle. Kudos to the volunteers that make it happen!
Fish counts to Friday, May 29, 2026
Smolt 5,413
990 in last week alone. All counts had smolts. After a rainy day, Viviane counted 511 in one afternoon, and Bob counted 217 next morning!
Fry 316
Cutthroat 15
Sculpins 16
American Bull Frogs 24
Howard caught a few ABFs upstream
Hope to see you Saturday June 6 at 10:30 AM at the Baybrook Nature Park bridge.