On Saturday, May 3, 2025, from 11 am – 3 pm, the Port Moody Ecological Society invites everyone to attend our annual Fingerling Festival

This iconic environmental festival is the largest of its kind in the Lower Mainland, and provides an opportunity for children (and adults!) to help release thousands of young chum salmon into Noons Creek to help these fish begin their four-year journey at sea.

We invite visitors to the hatchery with its fish-rearing pond and restored wetland. Release salmon fingerlings and speak to amazing ecological, educational and stewardship organizations that help make the Tri-Cities area a healthy, diverse and ecologically sustainable place to live.

Our fun, free environmental festival will be held at our Noons Creek Hatchery and the Port Moody Recreation Centre’s ice rink, located just across the walking bridge at 300 Ioco Road.

• Association for the Protection of Fur-Bearing Animals

• BC Recycles

• BCUOMA (Used Oil)

• Bobs & Lolo

• Burrard Inlet Marine Enhancement Society (BIMES)

• Mossom Creek Salmon Hatchery

• Burke Mountain Naturalists

• Busters Towing

• Canadian Parks and Wilderness Society

• Canadian Sound Therapy Arts Society

• City of Port Moody (Presenting Sponsor)

• Coastal Painted Turtle Project

• Colony Farm Park Association

• Port Moody Farmers Market / Coquitlam Farmers Market

• Coquitlam River Watch

• Coquitlam River Watershed

• Cotton Candy Kids

• Critter Care Wildlife Society

• David Suzuki Foundation

• Discovery Toys

• Echo Ecological

• Emotive, Electric Vehicle Experience (Metro Vancouver)

• Encorp Recycling

• Evergreen Line Rapid Transit Project

• First Nations artist, Shevonne Leigh

• Force of Nature

• Fortis BC

• Fraser River Discovery Centre

• Friends of De Boville Slough

• Go Wild BC Salmon Marketing Council

• Green Channel

• Green Planet Solutions

• Gulf of Georgia Cannery

• Hancock Wildlife

• Hyde Creek Watershed Society

• International Submarine Engineering Ltd.

• Invasive Plant Council of Metro Vancouver

• J Peachy, Artist

• Kinder Books

• Living Ocean Society

• Maple Creek Streamkeepers

• Metis Family Services

• Metro Vancouver Regional Parks

• Mike the Reptile Guy

• Minnekhada Park Association

• Mossom Creek Hatchery (BIMES)

• Nature Trust of BC

• Northern Spotted Owl Captive Breeding Program

• Northwest Wildlife Preservation Society

• Orca Lab

• OWL Rehabilitation Society

• Pacific Coast Terminals

Past sponsors have included the City of Port Moody, Pacific Coast Terminals (PCT), Port of Vancouver, Busters Towing, Unmediocre Store, Peller Estates, and the Boddy Family as being tremendous sponsors of this year’s event.  THANK YOU!!

Sponsors of the 2024 Fingerling Festival

We need you! 

We are seeking over 100 volunteers to make this environmental festival our very best to date.  Volunteers must be above 16 years of age or accompanied by a guardian at all times. Please register here.  Roles include helping with over 70 environmental organisations and 5,000 visitors, setting up, cooking hot dogs in our food tent, and assisting with the release of salmon into Noons Creek.

Families and groups are encouraged to volunteer, with flexible shifts available.  This is a great way to introduce volunteerism to your family.

Environmental groups and artists are invited to apply to attend by clicking here.  In the Port Moody Skating Arena, up to 70 organizations provide opportunities for our visitors to learn more about community initiatives and environmental stewardship. The BC Wildlife Foundation, Fraser River Discovery Centre, Northern Spotted Owl Breeding Program, Georgia Straight Alliance, and Oceanwise are just some of the fascinating groups that have participated in the Festival in past years.

Our festival would not be complete without the wonderful prizes at the raffle table, plus the great food from our fundraising hotdog lunch.

Everyone is encouraged to carpool, use public transit or cycle to the festival as this is a green event, and parking is very limited.  For additional information, phone the hatchery at 604-469-9106, or call Festival organiser Dave Bennie, at 604-617-1163

In previous years, we have been delighted to host the following exhibitors, many of whom return each year. Please support them as they support us: