Between April 27 and May 31, our release volunteers hosted 730 students and about 235 adults for 17 releases in Fauntleroy Park. They brought 1,850 coho fry reared from eyed eggs through Salmon in the Schools-Seattle.
The total included 500 fry raised by volunteer Jack Lawless to ensure that, in the event of a school die-off, every student would have a fish to put in the water. His fish also enabled children from four additional preschools to have a release experience.
From mid March to late May, volunteers checked net traps in the upper and lower creek twice daily to document 41 smolts that had survived to leave for nearshore habitat in Fauntleroy Cove. They were fry from 2022 releases and home hatch from spawning last fall.
Photo by Tom Trulin
Dennis Hinton with children from the Fauntleroy Children’s Center