Over 5,000 visitors attend each year for a day of exploring, experiencing and learning about the salmon and wildlife in a fish-bearing watershed in which the cities of Coquitlam and Port Coquitlam call home.
Date/Time: Nov 13 2016, 11:00 am to 3:00 pm
Port Coquitlam, Free parking at Hyde Creek Recreation CentreCost: Free
Highlights of the Festival will include:
- Fisheries and Oceans Canada displaying live salmon (up close!)
- Orphaned Wildlife Society (OWL) exhibiting a live eagle
- Salmon dissections and microscope investigations
- A gigantic “blue fish” with live storyteller and interactive costumes
- Face painting and cookie decorating for the young-at-heart
- Enjoy refreshments at our fundraising BBQ
- Looking for local flora and fauna on a guided nature walk
- Visit an operating salmon hatchery
- Opportunity to win exciting prizes at our Raffle table
- 36 environmentally motivated Exhibitors
- New! Environmentally linked items for sale
Tour the Hyde Creek Education Centre & Hatchery at 3636 Coast Meridian Road and see an operating hatchery and more activities – just a short walk down the Poco Trail behind the Rec Centre. Follow the signs!!
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