176 Chinook salmon were released on Tuesday, July 13.
Releasing that many fish is no small feat. But as the old adage goes, many hands make light work, and the entire team at the Centre, including a handful of volunteers, played their part; some roles wetter than others. The well organized and heavily choreographed process stretched from the Head of Animal Care inside the Pacific Salmon Exhibit, through a caravan of team members transporting salmon out to the beach and a diver in the water corralling the fish in a sea pen. Once the entire school was gathered together the sea pen was opened and the school of salmon headed out to sea to the sound of the team’s cheers.