MUIR CREEK STEELHEAD AND SALMON

"an ideal park in jeopardy"

The Department of Fisheries survey in

2001 recorded a total of 5,631 salmon

over 8 days of record keeping—mostly

Chum and Coho, but also some Chinook.

John Stephen, a Fisheries Supervisor for

the Sooke area and now retired, states

that annual returns in the Muir Creek watershed

in the 1990’s fluctuated between

ten and fifteen thousand fish. According

to Gord Patterson of the Eagle-Eye Wilderness

Company, Muir Creek is one of

only three remaining viable steelhead

habitats between Victoria and Port Renfrew.