Kokanee Salmon

• Conservation and restoration of Kelowna’s Mission Creek continues with master plan

  "What we're doing is re-creating the habitat that was lost."

  Lifestyle

  Sep 19, 2022
  
• Kokanee Salmon return to Hardy Falls Regional Park for spawning season

  Thousands of freshwater Kokanee Salmon are making their final journey back to the pools where they were born.

  Lifestyle

  Oct 2, 2021
  
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• Bear watch underway in Central Okanagan parks as sightings increase: Regional district

  ‘As sightings and evidence of their presence rise, we post signs in affected parks identifying that bears may be active in the area.’

  Canada

  Sep 11, 2021
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• Early drawdown of Okanagan Lake compromised fish restoration efforts, says BC Wildlife Federation

  'The province went out and did some sampling and found that in those areas and 75 per cent of the eggs and alevin in those areas had been killed by the drawdown.'

  Environment

  Aug 27, 2021
• Cleanup to begin on important kokanee spawning beds in Kelowna

  Sediment will be removed from the gravel beds with high pressure washers to improve kokanee spawning success.

  Environment

  Jul 21, 2017
• Okanagan Lake temperatures blamed for kokanee die-off

  The province now believes the die-off of hundreds of kokanee salmon in Okanagan Lake this year was caused by lake temperatures.

  Environment

  Aug 3, 2016
• Early Kokanee spawning moves up local festivals

  Interpreters at Deep Creek at Hardy Falls Regional Park say this is the earliest known start to the Kokanee salmon spawning season.

  Environment

  Jul 29, 2016
• Kokanee salmon stock hit and miss

  The numbers are in and they show mixed results for kokanee salmon stocks throughout the valley.

  Jan 10, 2014