Seymour River Fish Hatchery & Education Centre:
We enhance salmon populations and encourage sustainable management of fisheries in the Seymour River. Our mission is to educate everyone about the value of the Seymour River and the it supports as a resource for everyone living in British Columbia.
- Each year we raise 260,000 chum fry (104,000 of which were Seymour River origin) in the lower river. 21,000 summer and winter run steelhead smolts ocean released in West Vancouver.
- Every second year about 160,000 Pinks released into the Seymour Watershed
- 42,000 coho smolts released from the hatchery into Hurry Creek. 19,000 coho fed fry above Seymour falls Dam. 20,000 coho fed fry below the dam at Coho Creek. 7,000 coho smolts released to DFO seapens in Port Moody
- Our 'Gently Down the Seymour' Education Program teaches elementary school students about this life cycle.
North Vancouver, BC
First off, the road to the hatchery is not open to the public. If you are volunteering we will leave your name with the attendant at the Rice Lake Gatehouse and they will allow you up the access road. See this MAP to view the route.
Below see the Google Map locator showing where we are.