Hundreds of dead salmon still 'chock-full' of eggs found in Abbotsford, B.C., creek

A group of streamkeepers in Abbotsford, B.C., are worried about a surprising number of female salmon washing up dead on the banks, still “chock-full” of eggs that weren’t spawned.

The Abbotsford Ravine Park Salmon Enhancement Society has found 217 dead female salmon out of a total 379 counted at Stoney Creek in the past few weeks, according to volunteer Alexandra Munday.

“It's really concerning. We really have never seen this before,” she said.

[A volunteer cuts open a dead salmon washed up on the banks of Stoney Creek in Abbotsford, B.C., to find it has not yet spawned.] A volunteer cuts open a dead salmon washed up on the banks of Stoney Creek in Abbotsford, B.C., to find it has not yet spawned. (Baneet Braich/CBC)

“This is my first year doing this creek, but I'm a fisheries technici