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The PCH-HQ sports offices, an apartment, a workshop, feed and gear storage, and a garage.
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A mural featuring the life-cycle of pacific salmon adorns the side of the PCH-HQ.
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The new incubation building now has a second story for storage and a boiler.
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Not only does the oxygen building house the oxygen generators, but has space for a wet lab.
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Inside the oxygen building, the oxygen generators produce medical grade oxygen to send to the raceways for rearing salmon fry and smolt.
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The wet lab provides a space for fish pathology work and an area to prepare feed for the sport fish rearing area.
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The roof provides a nice covered space between the raceways and the incubation building.
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Inside the incubation building is a small area that provides direct access to incubation module 4 and to all the incubation modules via a corridor (to the left).
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A friendly reminder from the manager!
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King salmon and rainbow trout are incubated in Heath trays here in incubation module 4.
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The covered corridor to incubation modules 1-3 provides a secondary pathology barrier and helps keep down dust and dirt from the outside.
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Incubation modules 1-3 are outfitted with Kitoi Box incubators for late and early-run sockeye salmon as well as coho salmon.
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Sockeye salmon rear in large containers called raceways. Throughout the summer, Pillar Creek Hatchery staff feed and monitor the young salmon until release.
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This large head box collects water from two wells. The water is distributed to the incubation modules via gravity.
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An alternate view of the sockeye raceways shows the oxygen contactors (rectangular aluminium boxes). These contactors increase the oxygen distribution to the water in the raceways.
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This small shed, the “dugout”, houses the controls for the wells, feed for the sockeye, and a break room for the hard-working staff.
