Cutthroat Battling & SpawningI visited the same piece of Fell Channel again to see if anymore Coho fry had emerged from the gravel. Unfortunately I didn't see any fry in the same area and to make matters much worse (for the Coho fry) I saw a pair of Cutthroat utilizing the same redd that the Coho had made in the fall. This was in very close proximity to where I had seen the Coho fry of the year just days before. Downstream of the mating pair I spotted two male Cutthroats taking part in a seemingly brutal battle that surely left both sides with some war marks. I think that these two were looking for mating rights for the female spotted just upstream, however a much smaller suitor had swooped in while these two brutes were battling it out. The good news is upstream from the mating Cutthroat I was able to spot a couple more Coho fry. I highly doubt that the fry from the redd below would've been able to swim up to this area, so I would imagine the adult Coho from the fall had actually made multiple redds. Previously identified was two redds from the fall Coho, this would be redd #3.
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AuthorKeegan Casidy Archives
January 2020
CategoriesMosquito Creek,
North Vancouver, British Columbia |