Buck Creek Juvenile Salmonid Emigration Program: Autumn 2000

The Community Futures Development Corporation of Nadina operated a rotary screw trap (RST) on Buck Creek in the upper Bulkley River from August to November, 2000. The purpose of this study was to determine what portion of the coded wire tagged coho salmon fry outplanted into the upper reaches of Buck Creek in August migrated downstream prior to winter.

Low water for the majority of the study hampered the ability to set the rotary screw trap. Of 888 fish caught during the 17 days the RST was set, only 13 were coho. Twelve (12) of these were wild fish. Data gathered by setting wire mesh minnow traps on several occasions upstream and downstream of the RST added to the evidence that the outplanted coho did not migrate down Buck Creek prior to November.