How to Find Hoy Creek Hatchery

Hoy Creek hatchery

The Hoy Creek Hatchery is a 10-minute walk from Lafarge Lake-Douglas SkyTrain at Town Centre Park in Coquitlam. The hatchery is only open while work sessions are underway, however during your visit, there is a chance that a volunteer may be there and can provide a peek inside the small workspaces. The hatchery is not publicly accessible by road. Google search ‘Hoy Creek Hatchery’ or use the map above.

Hoy Creek Linear Park is a public park and anyone can visit day or night. The trail has interpretational and wayfinding signage, and Hoy Trail offers good to excellent views of Hoy Creek either southeast or northwest of the hatchery.

A Hatchery Open House is offered on the first Saturday of each month (excluding July / August) from 9:30 – 11:30 a.m.

Parking options: Search, Hoy Creek Hatchery on your phone maps to assist. Paid parking is available at the Lafarge Lake-Douglas Skytrain Station. Town Centre Park offers free parking around Lafarge Lake and is an approximate 10-min walk. Parking may also be available in the vicinity of Lasalle Place and Durant Drive and along Pacific (south of Guildford). Obey signage.

The salmon run

Hoy Creek is home to predominantly chum and coho salmon. And at times pink and chinook salmon. Salmon (chum) begin to return in mid-October, tapering off in December; coho in November, tapering off into January. If you visit the creeks outside of the common return months you still may see juvenile salmon resting in the side channels, under bridges or fallen trees or overhanging branches. read our salmon spotting tips here.

How can you help protect the stream during your visit? 

• Keep away from the banks of the stream. This stops erosion.

• Help protect shrubs, trees and plants growing beside the creek; this area is called the riparian zone and helps protect the stream and the salmon.

• Keep feet (dog or human) out of the stream.

• Take your trash with you. Pick up litter. 

• NO FISHING – Hoy Creek is a Fisheries-protected stream.

• Report a salmon fishing violation, or violation involving a Species at Risk-listed Fish, or an incident that may cause” serious harm” to fish/destruction of fish habitat, or the illegal sale of fish. Call Fisheries and Oceans – Observe, Record Report Line: 1-800-465-4336   

• Report a spill or water quality concern.
  Call the Provincial Emergency Program at:  1-800-663-3456

• Report a non-salmon fishing violation, a sighting of aquatic invasive species, wildlife-related concerns, pollution, dumping or off-road vehicle-related matters, please call the (Report All Poachers and Polluters) RAPP Line at 1-877-952-7277 (RAPP) or #7277 on the TELUS Mobility Network. If the situation is not an emergency, report the incident online or contact the nearest Conservation Officer Service district office.

  For fisheries violations related to salmon, contact Fisheries and Oceans Canada (DFO) at 1-800-465-4336. You can also contact your local RCMP detachment or municipal police.

• City of Coquitlam24-hour emergency line: 604-927-3500. Email images to epw@coquitlam.ca