From April 28 to May 31, volunteers with the Fauntleroy Watershed Council hosted 720 students and 250 adults for 19 releases that introduced 2,000+ coho fry into the creek.
These fry, along with “home hatch” from last fall’s spawning, are now feeding primarily on the larva of aquatic insects in the creek. Those that find enough food and protection in the system will head to saltwater next spring as smolts.
From mid March to mid May, volunteers used net traps in the upper and lower creek to document 30 surviving smolts from last year migrating to nearshore habitat in Fauntleroy Cove.
Volunteer Dennis Hinton with young releasers from the Fauntleroy Children’s Center (photo by Tom Trulin)