When Josie Eccher first came to the Sitka Sound Science Center, she never imagined her love of fish could possibly grow, but Sitka has that effect on people. Josie first fell in love with fish while wading through remote…
Our Pink and Chum salmon, which we raised and cared for at the hatchery several years ago, have found their way back home. Once our hatchery salmon reach the smolt stage of their lifecycle (transition from fresh to salt water),…
The month of June has been jam-packed with lots of projects in the hatchery. Now that the crew has released the pinks, chums, and 2023 coho, they are cleaning up equipment and prepping the hatchery for the upcoming return of…
After 2 to 5 years out in the wild the pink and chum are pushing at our barrier nets ready to come home. We are prepping our hatchery to receive the incoming salmon and soon will be starting to spawn…
Our hatchery crew is hard at work collecting Pink Salmon that have returned home. Every year the baby salmon we release complete their adult stage of life swimming in the deep blue Pacific Ocean. The now mature salmon, who are…
Pink and Chum salmon have returned to the hatchery in large numbers. Having competed their lifecycle the salmon are ready to spawn to seed the next generation. Our hatchery staff and students are getting ready to receive them. But before…
LOTS of fish were released in May by the hatchery crew! The second half of the brood year 2021 coho were released at the beginning of the May with Stacy Golden’s Field Science class from Sitka High School. The students…
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