8-13-2018

LYNDEN, Wash. — Volunteers from multiple groups and agencies will be out along Double Ditch Road Monday in Lynden working to move fish and other aquatic life in the east channel of Double Ditch stream to the west channel.

Joel Ingram with the State Department of Fish and Wildlife told local activist group Save Family Farming a sudden blockage upstream reduced waterflow in the east channel, so Twinbrook Creamery sent irrigation water for their crops into the stream.

The department, along with volunteers with Whatcom Conservation and the local agricultural community, plan to walk the stream and save as much as they can, by scooping up and transferring the fish via five-gallon buckets.

Ingram says the hope is that the fish will adapt to the western channel and survive to come back and reproduce.