Sadly, this event has been cancelled due to COVID-19. Please join us next year!
Date: May 1, 2020
Location: Nechako River at Riverside Park, Burrard Avenue, Vanderhoof, BC
The event is open to the public. The number of hatchery reared juvenile sturgeon available for school children to release into the Nechako River will be announced soon.
This annual release event has been hosted by the NWSRI with support from the District of Vanderhoof and Freshwater Fisheries Society of BC.
Please click on the event below to take you to that particular event page:
2019 Juvenile Release Event
2018 Juvenile Release Event
2017 Juvenile Release Event
2016 Save Our Sturgeon Release Event
2015 Save Our Sturgeon Release Event (4 May)
2014 Rivers Day in Vanderhoof (28 Sept)
2014 Grand Opening of the Sturgeon Conservation Centre (17 June)
2013 River's Day - In 2013 River's Day events were not held in Prince George or Vanderhoof. NWSRI will co-host the River's Day event with the City of Vanderhoof in 2014. We believe River's Day is an important public celebration of Canada's rivers and watersheds.
2012 Rivers Day in Prince George (23 Sept) and Vanderhoof (30 Sept)
2011 Save our Sturgeon (SOS) Spring Spawning Celebration - May 29th
2010 River's Day in Vanderhoof
2009 Save Our Sturgeon School Event - October 7th, 2009
2008 Save Our Sturgeon Juvenile Release - October 1st and 2nd, 2008
2007 Save Our Sturgeon Juvenile Release with SD 91 - October 10th and 11th, 2007
Juvenile Sturgeon Releases with SD 91 - October 3rd and 4th, 2006
Pilot Conservation Hatchery Summer 2006 - Photos of sturgeon growing!
Pilot Conservation Hatchery - May 2006: Adult Spawning and Adult Release