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FISH's mission is to advocate retaining and improving the historic salmon hatchery and to promote watershed stewardship through education.
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You can still help FISH at Barnes & Noble Bookfair in Issaquah through Thursday
Barnes & Noble is hosting a Bookfair from Saturday, May 1, through Thursday, May 6, with a percentage of sales benefiting Friends of the Issaquah Salmon Hatchery.
Simply print out the voucher (at left) and present it when you make your purchase at the Issaquah Barnes & Noble.
Can't make it to the store at all during the week? You can still support FISH by visiting the Barnes and Noble Bookfair website. When you visit the link from May 1 to May 6, 2010, enter Bookfair ID 10165751 at checkout. Click the voucher (at left) to visit the Bookfair website.
FISH wishes to thank the Issaquah Women's Club and Barnes & Noble for this great fund-raising opportunity!
We'd also like to thank you for your support and for doing all you can to help keep the salmon coming home!
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Make a big splash this summer at Salmon Science Camp!
 Hatchery's day-camp programs for preschool and school-age children add fun education to summer
It's time to enroll in FISH's popular Summer Salmon
Science Camp and Little Fry Preschool Camp. The week-long day camps for
school-aged children turn students into junior scientists. And new this
year is FISH's Little Fry half-day camp for preschoolers from 3 to 5 years of age.
During the summer salmon science camp, students will have fun learning all
about the salmon life cycle and watershed stewardship as they conduct a water
quality and aquatic insect study of Issaquah Creek, perform
experiments, go on a nature hike, make arts and crafts, play games, use
microscopes, hear Native American legends and more!
Camp runs 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Camp
dates are:
· Ages 6-8: July 12-16 or July 19-23 or July 26-30 or Aug.
9-13
· Ages 9-11: Aug. 2-6
· Cost: $175 for FISH members and $205 for non-members
During Little Fry camp, students find out the answers to "Where do salmon
live? And who lives near the salmon?" Little Fry campers will explore the
salmon hatchery and Issaquah Creek, create an animal track to take home, become
a salmon, act like a bug, and sing the songs of water. This camp will encourage
the joy of discovery and cultivate a sense of wonder in the environment and in
salmon.
Little Fry camp, for ages 3-5, is June 29, 30 and July 1 from 9:30 a.m. to 12:30
p.m. Cost is $145 for FISH members and $175 for non-members.
Discounts are available for siblings for all camps. Please contact Celina
Steiger at celina@issaquahfish.org or call 425-392-8025 for
more information or to register for all camps.
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Join FISH for preschool Super Salmon Sleuths program!
 Ever wonder what it's like to be a salmon? This popular spring program teaches preschoolers about the salmon life cycle through engaging games and hands-on activities. Super Salmon Sleuths offers a clever introduction to science for preschoolers.
The program is 1.5 to 2 hours in length and costs $8 per student. Classes are held May 10 and June 14 (groups can also schedule other dates) from 9:30-11:30 a.m. in the hatchery's Watershed Science Center.
For more information, contact Celina Steiger at celina@issaquahfish.org or 425-392-8025.
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 Please release me....
The Issaquah Salmon Hatchery is planning on releasing
about 1 million juvenile chinook on Monday, May 10. The hatchery will also
begin its "volitional release" of some 550,000 juvenile coho from May
10 through May 20. This means that the screens in the coho holding ponds will
be pulled and the young salmon will leave the hatchery and head into Issaquah Creek
on their own. Those that haven't left by May 20 will be sent on their way on
that day by hatchery staff.
This is the first year of such a "volitional
release" for Issaquah. Doing this type of release will give the fish that
are ready to head to Puget Sound the opportunity to do so quickly, so they
aren't lingering in the lakes and potentially eating juvenile kokanee. (Kokanee
are a type of sockeye salmon that do not migrate to sea. The Lake Washington kokanee has been suggested for
listing under the federal Endangered Species Act. Issaquah Hatchery has been
involved with a program to rescue the local kokanee population).
This is also about a month later than the usual release time for the young coho, called "smolts." (Smolting refers to the stage when salmon are ready to move from fresh to salt water). The
change is also part of the effort to ensure that the juvenile coho do not feed upon the young kokanee in the Lake Washington system. By releasing the coho
later than usual, the kokanee will be bigger, which will decrease the chance of predation by coho.
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Join FISH for the
inaugural
"Smolt Run" Bike Ride!
Monday, May 31
@ the Issaquah Salmon
Hatchery
125 W. Sunset Way,
Issaquah, 98027
RIDE FROM THE ISSAQUAH
HATCHERY TO THE BALLARD LOCKS
MAKE THE SAME JOURNEY
(ALMOST) AS THE JUVENILE SALMON (SMOLTS)
FROM ISSAQUAH CREEK TO PUGET SOUND
42-MILE RIDE ALONG WELL ESTABLISHED TRAILS, AT
YOUR OWN PACE
START: BETWEEN 9 AM & 11 AM AT THE HATCHERY
SUGGESTED DONATION: $15
QUESTIONS? CALL
425-392-1118 OR GESTIN@ISSAQUAHFISH.ORG
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THANK YOU to FISH's loyal supporters, which include the City of Issaquah, Puget Sound Energy Foundation, Microsoft Corp., Kiwanis Club of Issaquah, Cascade Bank, the City of Sammamish and many others!
FOLLOW US. FISH is on Facebook & Twitter. To follow us on Facebook, simply search for "Friends of the Issaquah Salmon" in the search box and join our group!
To follow us on Twitter, go to http://twitter.com/issaquahfish
Best "fishes,"
Gestin Suttle
Friends of the Issaquah Salmon Hatchery
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