On Nov. 28, the Fauntleroy Watershed Council closed this year’s salmon watch after 17 volunteers documented 244 coho spawners – the most in nine years.
The seven-week watch was the longest since annual counting began in 1999, and it drew 400+ visitors – the most ever – to see fish and learn about salmon behavior and habitat. An estimated 33% of the spawners were wild (not reared in a hatchery), some of which could have been released here through the Salmon in the Schools program.
Volunteers will be back in January/February to check “home hatch” emerging from redds left by the spawners.