Today we met at the railroad crossing in Nanoose to continue our fry salvage on Bonnel Creek. We had a good turn out today with new volunteers eager to help. Splitting into two groups we went upstream while the other group went downstream. Most of the pools downstream are drying now and the fry have been removed. Their are still a couple of pools too deep or impacted with woody debris to make salvage difficult until the subsurface flow recedes further down and we are able to get in with gum boots. Upstream their are two big pools with cover and stumps then above are two more large shallow pools.
Above the railroad bridge the water is still on the surface with more than gum-boot depth from bank to bank up past the highway bridge. We managed to salvage around 500 Wild Coho fry from the two shallow pools then went back down to the two deeper pools and patiently collected another 100 or so. The downstream crew were able to get around 300 fry before they came back upstream to the tank in the truck. After we all went up to Swan Lake to release them.
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