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Here is what you'll be doing if you participate in one of our many seines.  It's lots of fun and very educational too.  This is just one part of our Coho Enumeration program.  We really appreciate everyone who helps us out with the program.  Through our work, the Seymour is one of the most documented rivers in the province.  Our cumulative data is creating a long historic profile of the river, fish, their habitat and overall numbers which proves more and more valuable as each year goes by.

Two volunteers pulling in the net. As it gets closer to shore, the fish are concentrated making it easier to scoop up the fish with a dip net.

We're having fun.

Volunteers using a dip net.

Here a coho is measured, its sex is determined, dated in the log book, checked for spawning readyness and if not ready to spawn it is released to be seined again later in the coho season.

Volunteer Coordinator, James Weger is showing how to handle a fish and collect the neseccary data for the log book.

Jayson holding a jack coho. This is a young coho who entered the river with its older counterparts. It won't spawn this year but will return to the ocean and come back next year much larger and able to spawn.

Here a hole punch is used to mark the opercullum on a steelhead(the Gill plate or Gill cover). This way we will know if we've handled this fish before and also gives us a means to better count the numbers of steelhead in the Seymour.

A small steelhead gets enumerated and released back into the river.