2024 Salmon-Spotting
Autumn is salmon-spotting season in the lower mainland! We invite you to witness these majestic and iconic fish, and at the same time help us to learn more about the health of their populations and habitat.
Salmon in Still Creek
In 2012, salmon returned to the Vancouver portion of Still Creek for the first time in nearly 80 years and spawned behind the Canadian Tire on Grandview Highway.
Since then, Chum salmon have returned in at least six separate years. We are hopeful that they will return again in 2024 since the number of Chum returning to the Fraser River has been good so far this year.
How to Join In
- Visit one or more of the locations marked on the map below.
- Look for salmon!
- If you see salmon, take a photo.
- Whether or not you saw salmon, email salmon@stillmoonarts.ca and include:
- Location? (click on the map for location names)
- Date?
- Where there any salmon there? How many? Could you tell what species it was? Were they dead or alive?
- Photo if you have one.
- Anything else you noticed and would like to share.
Clicking on the map markers will tell you the location name, whether others have looked here, and what they saw.
We’ll add your photos and reports to the map as they come in.
Please make sure to email us even if you didn’t see salmon – knowing where the salmon didn’t go is just as important as knowing where they did go.
Learn More about Salmon
Chum salmon (Still Creek’s most common species)
Coho Salmon (seen in Beecher Creek and the eastern portion of Still Creek)
Contribute to other Projects
If you’d contribute your sightings to other salmon-spotting initiatives, or find salmon-spotting locations beyond Still Creek, check out:
- Watershed Watch Salmon Society: Salmon Spawn Watch 2024
- Pacific Salmon Foundation: Salmon Spotting
Project Funders & Supporters
