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  • Salmon bearing streams

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    Coho, chum and pink salmon have been recorded in the Chonat Creek system, at the north end of Quadra Island. Records suggest coho spawning grounds were upstream of Chonat Lake.
     

     
    Below: Historical records of returns, 1947-1975, from Catalogue of Fish and Stream Resources of Area 13 (preliminary), a publication of DFO.
     

     

     

     

     
    Below: Chonat Lake
     

     
    1997 TimberWest fisheries survey of a portion of the Chonat Creek watershed preparatory to logging.
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    Above: The “Christie Creek” watershed on Sonora Island. The department of fisheries historically referred to the salmon-bearing creek flowing out of St Aubyn Lake as “Christie Creek.” Current GeoBC mapping shows this creek as “St Aubyn Creek.”
     
    Below: Historical records of returns, 1947-1975, from Catalogue of Fish and Stream Resources of Area 13 (preliminary), a publication of DFO.

     

     

     

     
     
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    Below: Historical records of returns, 1947-1975, from Catalogue of Fish and Stream Resources of Area 13 (preliminary), a publication of DFO.

     

     

     

    Below: Historical records of returns, 1980-2020, from the Quadra Island Salmon Enhancement Society. (Click image to enlarge)
     

    2021: No Chum observed
    2022: 2 Chum
     
     
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    (Evans Creek is known locally as Bird Cove Creek)
     

     
    Below: Historical records of returns, 1954-1973, from Catalogue of Fish and Stream Resources of Area 13 (preliminary), a publication of DFO. Note that the unnamed creek that flows into Bird Cove from the south (not shown in GEO BC's mapping above) was Coho bearing.
     

     

     

     

     
     
     
     
    Project Staff
    Below: Historical records of returns, 1947-1975, from Catalogue of Fish and Stream Resources of Area 13 (preliminary), a publication of DFO.

     

     

     

     
    Below: Historical records of returns, 1980-2020, from the Quadra Island Salmon Enhancement Society. (Click image to enlarge)
     

    2021: 169 Chum
    2022: 12 Coho, 369 Chum, 368 Pink
     
    Below: Granite Bay Creek estuary

     
    1997 TimberWest stream surveys of tributaries of Granite Creek preparatory to logging.
    Project Staff
    Coho, chum and pink salmon have been recorded in the Hyacinthe Creek system on Quadra Island. Coho are still spawning in Tan Creek, which runs into Mud Lake at the headwaters of Hyacinthe Creek. Keeping these populations alive has fallen to the Quadra Island Salmon Enhancement Society. Other named streams in the Hyacinthe Creek watershed include Nighhawk Creek and McKercher Creek. The latter originates in a wetland below Mount Seymour. 
     

     
    Below: Summary of historical returns of Chum salmon to Hyacinthe Creek

     
     
    Below: Historical records of returns for all species for Hyacinthe Creek, 1947-1975, from Catalogue of Fish and Stream Resources of Area 13 (preliminary), a publication of DFO.
     

     

     

     

     
    Below: Historical records of returns, 1980-2020, from the Quadra Island Salmon Enhancement Society. (Click image to enlarge)
     

    2021: 16 Coho, 1120 Chum
    2022: 47 Coho, 2925 Chum
    Below: Hyacinthe Creek in October 2020, just below the culvert beneath Hyacinthe Bay Road. This section of the stream has been mapped as a red-listed ecological community by the BC Conservation Data Centre.
     

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    Above: The Open Bay Creek watershed.
     
    Below: Historical records of returns, 1947-1975, from Catalogue of Fish and Stream Resources of Area 13 (preliminary), a publication of DFO.
     

     

     

     

     
    Below: Historical records of returns, 1980-2020, from the Quadra Island Salmon Enhancement Society. (Click image to enlarge)
     

    2021: 1513 Chum
    2022: 1333 Chum
    Below: Open Bay Creek

     
    1997 TimberWest fisheries survey of a portion of the Open Bay Creek watershed preparatory to logging.
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    Above: The Village Bay Creek watershed.
     
    Below: Historical records of returns, 1947-1975, from Catalogue of Fish and Stream Resources of Area 13 (preliminary), a publication of DFO.
     

     

     

     

     
    Below: Historical records of returns, 1980-2020, from the Quadra Island Salmon Enhancement Society. (Click image to enlarge)
     

    2021: 225 Chum
    2022: 212 Coho, 50 Chum
    Below: Village Bay Creek, between Village Bay and Village Bay Lake, in summer.

     
    1997 TimberWest stream surveys of tributaries of Village Bay Creek near Stramberg Lake, preparatory to logging.
    1997 TimberWest stream surveys of tributaries of Village Bay Creek near Little Main Lake, preparatory to logging.
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    Above: Waiatt Creek watershed.
     
    Below: Historical records of returns, 1947-1975, from Catalogue of Fish and Stream Resources of Area 13 (preliminary), a publication of DFO.

     

     

     

    Below: Records of returns in 2020, from the Quadra Island Salmon Enhancement Society.
     

     
    Counts by Johanna Paradis, Jack Sutherland and Kai Sutherland:

     

     

     
    Below: Hummingbird Lake wetlands at the headwaters of Waiatt Creek
     

     
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