Once again Lehman Creek is the place where hundreds of thousands of baby walleye fish will enter the world, as the Lost Horse Creek Wildlife Federation has set up its fish hatchery.
A group of about eight volunteers has been running the hatchery over the last number of days, with some 600,000 to 700,000 eggs filling two jars inside the hatchery. The eggs were acquired from the fish spawn at Buffalo Pound Lake near Moose Jaw April 26.
The jars seen here are filled with natural water from nearby Lehman Creek that will gently move the eggs around in the jars and allow them to hatch. The good news is that almost all of the eggs seen here are turning into the “brown” color that indicates they are healthy and about to hatch.
Volunteers at the site reported remarkably few issues, with the weather co-operating by maintaining temperatures at just the right level for the fish eggs to hatch.
They were confident 2015 will mark their most successful hatch yet and expect nearly 100 per cent of the eggs will turn into healthy fish. They expect the hatch to take place sometime this week, after which the fish will be transported to their final lake destination and released into the wild.
