Salmon watch 2021

First coho spawner to arrive in 2019. Photo by Dennis Hinton

It’s spawning season on Fauntleroy Creek and the Fauntleroy Watershed Council has enlisted more than a dozen volunteers to keep watch between Oct. 10 and mid November. 

They will be watching at the fish ladder during the five hours after high tide – when spawners are most likely to have made their way in from Fauntleroy Cove. 

Last year was a low year for spawners, with just one expiring at the mouth of the creek and another dead on the beach.  The mean since 1990 has been seven.