Timeline

• 1981 - Began building Duck Lake Facility
• 1983 - Brood year of first releases (34,502 Coho; 756 Pink)
• 1985 - Brood year of first Chum release (50K)
• 1986 - Brood year of first Chinook release (120K)
• 1986 - Installed incubation facility on the MacMillan Bloedel mill site and reared 4,500 Cuthroat Trout for release to Powell Lake
• 1988 - Fence was relocated to the mouth of Lang Creek
• 1989 - Spawning channel for chum was installed at Lang Creek
• 1991 - Mill hatchery was relocated and rearing troughs were also installed
• 1993 - Initiation of brood hold sort facility in Lang Bay
• 1994 - Expansion of brood hold sort facility in Lang Bay
• 1998 - Began supplying Chinook to Chapman Creek (150 Keyed Eggs) Sliammon First Nations and Sechelt First Nations
• 1998 - Began rearing Chinook in Duck Lake net pens
• 2000 - a new hatchery was constructed at the mill at a cost of approximately $500,000
• 2001 - We began adipose fin clipping all of our Coho releases
• 2005 - Restructured Lang Creek spawning channel
• 2005 - Lang fishway release extension
• 2005 - First Annual PR Pacific Salmon Foundation dinner and fundraiser
• 2006 - Placed lifecycle log at Lang Creek
• 2006 - Lang Creek information kiosk placed
• 2006 - Mill hatchery explansion
• 2006 - First terminal fish transplants at Willingdon and Texada locations
• 2006 - Placement of rock and wooden salmon sculpture and Mill hatchery
• 2007 - Acquistion of Heathrow Fish Pump
• 2007 - Net loft completed at Duck Lake Hatchery
• 2007 - PR troff bulk incubation expansion at Mill Hatchery

Annual releases are approximately as follows:

• 200 to 300 K Coho
• 500 to 1000 K Chum
• 1000 to 1400 K Chinook
• In addition, the spawing channel is estimated to produce up to 1000 K Chum Fry per year