In 2020 and 2021, the Integris Community Foundation provided $30,000 in grants to the Takla Nation for their Emergency Sockeye Hatchery at Takla Landing. These funds were used to upgrade incubation equipment, purchase egg storage/shipping containment, purchase/install of battery-back-up for incubation pumps to continue operating in the event of power disruption giving vital protection for this endangered stock.
Integris is making significant investments in the Takla Nation’s Sockeye Hatchery given the Nation’s strong leadership and action-oriented approach. Together, we are working to avoid the extirpation of Stuart Sockeye – a species that has significant local and downstream benefits for habitat, wildlife (bears, eagles, ravens, wolves, orca) and humans. Here, we see Cory Williamson (Project Lead) and a Takla youth releasing Sockeye fry into the Kuzkwa River in June 2021.
Integris is making significant investments in the Takla Nation’s Sockeye Hatchery given the Nation’s strong leadership and action-oriented approach. Together, we are working to avoid the extirpation of Stuart Sockeye – a species that has significant local and downstream benefits for habitat, wildlife (bears, eagles, ravens, wolves, orca) and humans. Here, we see Cory Williamson (Project Lead) and a Takla youth releasing Sockeye fry into the Kuzkwa River in June 2021.