A group of volunteers with the Squamish Streamkeepers Society set out to wrap creosote pilings with plastic coverings to promote herring spawning in False Creek. On January 17, approximately 25 volunteers headed down to the docks at Fisherman’s Wharf armed with tools and rain gear to install the coverings.

They did this in the wake of a successful herring run rehabilitation in Squamish Harbour and a trial last year in False Creek. The society hopes to rebuild the herring run in False Creek that had previously been decimated by the pollution of industry in the last hundred years. Twenty million herring hatched on wrapped pilings last year and double that are expected this year.

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False Creek Herring Rescue from Ian Wood on Vimeo.