Howe Sound Herring Rebound

Squamish volunteers like Jack Cooley, and Jonn Matsen have been nursing herring spawns in Squamish Harbor for several years now. They realized that herring eggs died and rotted when attached to creosote-soaked pilings, so they started sheathing the pilings with construction shade-cloth. The herring eggs remain viable and hatch when spawned on these wrapped pilings. No studies have been carried out on the effects of live larvae in such close proximity to the creosote however. The wrapping represents only a tiny fraction of the piling total, and is a temporary solution at best. The longer term fix lies with plans like our neighbors to the south, Washington. There they have programs in place to remove creosote from the waters, and use alternatives in constructing new piers and dock structures. This spring, the herring spawn was the biggest yet, extending across the Squamish estuary around to the site of the old WoodFibre pulp mill. Now Howe Sound is full of "feed herring" and there are new signs of this natural bounty enhancing the health of the ecosystem. Interesting to note is that when the herring numbers dropped in the late 60s, early 70s, the Chinook escapements from the Squamish system crashed 3 years later. Clearly there is a close relationship to these two species. Tenderfoot Hatchery caught their full egg objective target for Chinook weeks ago. On Jan. 1968, Dorothy Kennedy spotted Orcas of Darrell Bay. Not much has been seen of these animals since then, until this ...



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