Driving from Sooke to Jordan River alone, you can see the following creeks that are affected by the Salmon Enhancement Program & the work that volunteers contribute through the Streamkeepers Program. Salmon Enhancement provides the funding for materials & purchases necessary. Work is normally mostly done by a Streamkeeper group who focus mostly on a single creek. Considering this is a very small area, realize that there are hundreds of streams within the province of B.C. that reap the benefits of these programs.
Thanks
to the business community, this event can award over $90,000.00
in prizes while at the same time ensuring that local groups
will receive the funding they need to build up declining
fish stocks. Sue Coleman and Robert Bateman donate
framed prints and Honda and Sherwood Marine an outboard
motor, to be raffled off at the awards banquet. These contributions
help greatly to ensure our goals are met. With our annual
50/50 thrown into the mix, our volunteer sales people take
in an average of $5,000 in only a 2 hour time span. The tickets
for these articles are available only during the awards banquet
and are restricted to derby entrants, there are no sales
to the general public. Derby participants deserve a pat on
the back for their efforts to aid salmon restoration!
The Net
Proceeds of the event are donated to The Pacific
Salmon Foundation. Rob Waters, our host, MC, and
a valued member of the Derby Team is a Director of the Pacific
Salmon Foundation and each year reviews the requests for
donations through the foundation. Funds from this event are
then targeted to local waters of the Lower Island. The Pacific
Salmon Foundation contributes to the Derby by donating among
other articles; The annual "Sponsors
Award" which is a framed print of the
Salmon Enhancement tag that is purchased with each fishing
license. We thank them for their continued support and their
on going efforts to put fish back in the waters "one
stream at a time".
The Alpine
Juan de Fuca Salmon Derby is held under the banner
of the Juan de Fuca Invitational
Salmon Championship Society. We are a registered
Non-Profit Society; No member of the Executive or any of
our volunteers receive any monetary rewards. If you are
interested in fishing the Derby and donating to Salmon
Enhancement by way of Sponsorship or would like to donate
directly to the conservation side of the event and be recognized
at the Awards Banquet please CONTACT us
by phone or email.
The following pictures are of just a few of the l ocal creeks in the Sooke area that are part of the Salmon Enhancement Program. Literally hundreds of others exist within British Columbia:
