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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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'Tis the  season to celebrate "fintastic" volunteers
As the 2010 spawning season draws to a close, FISH wishes to highlight the enthusiastic crew of volunteers who made this another successful year for tours.
FISH saw 44 master and returning docents this year and 23 new docents who continued to volunteer beyond training. The friendly FISH team gave tours to more than 7,400 visitors during the 10-week fall season.
Several guides achieved important milestones with FISH this year. Kim Stanley reached his 15th year as a FISH docent! Way to go, Kim! And celebrating their 10th year as a FISH volunteer this year are Janet Andersen, Eileen Barber, Bob Butenko, Paula DeLucia, Pat McArthur (our garden angel) and Bruce Sillers. Also, completing their fifth year as a FISH docent this year are Vicki Hahn, Joe Podorsek, Diane Rhodes and Roger Urbaniak. Congratuations to all for your dedication and service!
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Randy Harrison rejoins FISH Board
Randolph "Randy" Harrison, a founding FISH member and director, was elected last month to rejoin the board and fill out the remaining term left by Master Docent Kevin Boze, who resigned from the board earlier this year after he accepted a new position in Utah.
Randy retired recently from The Boeing Co. as the head of international sales communication. He also is a former foreign correspondent for the Orlando Sentinel and Army Special Forces officer.
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He graduated from high school in Lisbon, Portugal, and spent the first two years of university-level study in Paris. Randy graduated from the University of Central Florida following a couple of years in Vietnam.
He is married with two grown sons; the eldest, Tyler, also served as a FISH docent with Randy in 1995.
During his prior term on the FISH Board, Randy helped secure the Boeing grant for the hatchery's Steve Bell Theater. Randy also serves on the Washington State Parks Foundation board and is a member of the Issaquah Development Commission.
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Rainbows moved to Beaver Lake
The Issaquah Hatchery stocked Beaver Lake with 2,500 2-year-old rainbow trout on November 8. The bright fish were greeted by a bevy of eager anglers.  | | Debi Sanchez releases rainbow trout into Beaver Lake. |
The rainbows raised at the Issaquah Hatcery are transported each year to Beaver and Pine Lakes in Sammamish. The City of Sammamish supports the rainbow trout program by paying for the cost of the fish feed. We thank Sammamish for supporting this worthwhile cause.
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FISH members make all the difference
FISH formed in 1993 with a group of dedicated individuals who joined together to save the hatchery from closure. Some of those original members were quickly joined by other community members and remain steadfast supporters to this day. Congratulations and thank you to the following individuals for their 15 years and counting of making a big splash with FISH**:
Marjorie Alexander * Mary & Harris Atkins, Jr. * Debbie Berto & Tom Norton * Val Borman * Mike Cavallon * Tamsin Clapp * Bill Conley * Mark & Tami Cron * Marian Elberson * Frances Fallstrom * Ava Frisinger * Dwight Frugé * Randy & Susan Harrison * John Hightower * Stephen Hill/Cat Clinic of Issaquah * W. Byron & Mariana Ives * Louise Johnson * Leon Kos * Mary-Lou Lewis * Louise Miller * Don & Mary McWhirter * Don & Susan Monchil * Norman "Crash" & Kristen Nash * Mark Novak * Mary Pacheck & Carl Buchholz * James D. Perkins * Dave & Penny Short * Bruce & Jean Sillers * Ernie & Robin Lee Smith * Suzanne Suther * Thomas & Lisa Tobin * Dorothy Tolles * Tommie Troutman * Steve & Lynda Wimbush Cheers also to the individuals and organizations listed below for their enduring support. By renewing their memberships each year, they help FISH reach thousands of individuals with our unique brand of salmon science education and watershed stewardship**:
Mark Allen * Richard & Janet Andersen *Richard Axell * Eileen Barber * Carolyn & Steven Barlow * Lawrence Benitez * Kevin Boze, Grace Reamer & Katharine Carlson * Dave & Marcia Butchart * Robert Butenko * Fred Butler * Chernin Family * George Cobel * Dale & Marian Crane * Kip Edwards * Extend Networks * Larry Franks * Corey Gazit * Katharyn Alvord Gerlich * Patty Green * Kaplan Test Prep * Mark & Vicki Hahn * Keith Hansen * Craig Hashimoto * Clare Hayes * Lauren Heiberg * Jim Hutchinson * Jolene Huntington-Sanborn & Mike Sanborn * Emma Huryn * Michael & Keiko Intlekofer * Issaquah Soccer Club * Trevor & Emma Jordan * Microsoft Corp. * Mason & Diane Lilly * William Loken * Bill & Cat Lundell * Mark & Rita Macomber * Sridhar Mandyam * Mike, Pat & Marshall McArthur * Simon Mattes * Meadows Cat Hospital * David & Jacqueline Messner * Jane Morton * Gracie Napolitan * Northwest Striders Volksport Club * Larry Norton * Mark Orth & Dana Packard * Anne Paschal * Michele & Kyle Peltonen * Roy & Connie Peterson * John & Barbara Plumb * Joseph & Mary Ann Podorsek *Julia Pollock * Puget Sound Energy * Quality Pacific, Inc. * Bob Rawlings * Craig & Diane Rhodes * Kristen R. Roby & Jim Dimlow * David Smith * Carolyn Rowe * Kylene Sim * David Sprague/ Seattleareahomes.com * Charles "Stan" Staniforth * Jim & Michael Stanton * Paul Sunich/ Castlerock Apartments *Bruce Suttle * Gestin Suttle & Loren Skaggs * Ken Tarleton * Peter Thompson & Carol Mozet * David & Roberta Waggoner * Sylvia Watson * Darrell Wells * Dave Wettstein & Karlen Rose Trucke * Dan Wilshin * Paul "Toby" Yelle * Wally Younger * Dave Zeigler* Norb and Mary Ziegler * Welcome to our newest members: Jessica & Justin Alter, Roger & Betty Arendall * Asian Counseling & Referral Service * Ryan Bendt, Bruce Berg, Steve Boggio * Susan & Derek Carroll * Janice Chamberlain * Justin & Eunice Cho * Oliver Conboy-Smith * Fredric Dunlap * Frank Lowe * Barry Fedder, DDS, Carina Glasgow* Zachary and Abby Graber * David Hagert * Holly Hallman * Harris Hamilton * Bob Harrison * Darcy Hilby * Kathryn Howard * John & Lynnda Kilpatrick * Johann Knorr * Sabastian Koellner * Sharon Macpherson * Tessa Marcus * Patti Mitchell * Dennis & Caroline Mok * Nault Jewelers * Meredith Prock * Timothy & Jenifer Reinhardt * Kelly Richardson & Family * Olivia Rothenstein * Holly Salmonson *Ashish & Menka Soni * John & Annette Traeger* Tutta Bella * Roger Urbaniak And we bid a sad farewell to John Springer, who passed away on October 14. John joined FISH in 2002 and was also an enthusiastic docent with an infectious smile. Our condolences are with his family. ** We strive for accuracy, however, please accept our apologies and let us know as soon as possible if we have omitted your name or made any other errors.
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Hatchery Happenings
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The Issaquah Hatchery this week began clipping the back adipose fin of juvenile coho. The process, known as mass marking, is used to distinguish hatchery-raised chinook and coho from non-hatchery fish. The distinction enables anglers to immediately recognize whether their catch can be kept or needs to be released back into the water. Mass marking has been used by the Washington State Department of Fish and Wildlife since 1996.
The hatchery will mark more than 500,000 coho this season before the fish are released into Issaquah Creek in the spring. The hatchery hires contractors who use tiny scissors the size of nail clippers to snip one adipose fin after another from a seemingly never-ending supply of juvenile fish. One worker will clip thousands of fins per day. All this work goes on in an unassuming white trailer parked at the hatchery.
The coho being clipped were spawned last year. This year's coho numbers remain low, with 280 total coho spawned to date and an estimated 465,000 eggs collected. The hatchery's goal is 1.2 million eggs. In order to meet that goal, the hatchery plans to supplement its stock with eggs from the Wallace River Hatchery in Sultan.
Meanwhile, the hatchery spawned more than 1,000 chinook this fall and collected some 2.5 million eggs. More than 1,000 king salmon were released upstream of the hatchery.
The hatchery is also spawning kokanee in the LakeSammamish system. So far 21 fish were spawned from Ebright Creek, with about 12,000 eggs collected, and eight fish were spawned from Laughing Jacobs Creek, with 3,672 eggs collected. The goal is to collect 110,000 kokanee eggs this season from Ebright, Laughing Jacobs and Lewis creeks, in an effort to help revive the species.
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Give the gift of FISH membership
 Share your love of Issaquah's salmon by giving the gift of membership this season. When you give the gift of membership, your recipient will join the FISH family of dedicated people who have committed to protecting one of Issaquah's most treasured places and one of our most treasured species.
Best of all, this gift is sure to be just the right size, style and color! Gift memberships can be made for a range of amounts and are tax-deductible donations that help FISH promote salmon education in our region. Please consider giving a gift membership today. |
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Many thanks...
FISH simply could not provide the services it does without the generosity of many individuals, businesses and organizations.
For this issue we'd like to take a moment to especially thank those who made donations for FISH's volunteer dinner, held earlier this month. These donations helped FISH thank the many volunteers who gave tours to the thousands of people who visited the hatchery this fall. Thank you to the following companies/organizations for your generous contributions:
St. Joseph Catholic Church (for providing the lovely hall)
Bath & Body Works
Boehms Chocolates
Coho Café
Home Depot
Issaquah Brewhouse
Macky's Dim Sum
Mark's Hallmark
Muckleshoot Tribe
Sisters Antiques
Starbucks
Trader Joes
Tutta Bella
Village Theater
FISH would also like to recognize and thank the following organizations for their support this year:
City of Issaquah
City of Sammamish
Issaquah Women's Club
Kiwanis Club of Issaquah
Microsoft Corp. and Microsoft Giving Campaign
Port Blakely Communities
Puget Sound Energy and the Puget Sound Energy Foundation
Waste Management
FISH Board of Directors
Ava Frisinger, President
Norman Nash, Vice President
Patty Green, Secretary
Mark Allen, Treasurer
Richard Andersen
Eileen Barber
Randolph Harrison
Jim Hutchinson
Suzanne Suther
Darrell Wells
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