The Streamkeepers' Way

This made for TV version of The Herring People feature documentary follows a group, calling themselves the Squamish Streamkeepers. These volunteers responded to the crisis by investigating potential reasons for the decline in local herring stocks in Howe Sound, near Squamish, BC, and False Creek, near Vancouver, BC. They discovered that millions of herring eggs were dying on creosote pilings and subsequently wrapped the pilings in a selection of non-toxic materials to try to protect the eggs from the creosote. To their disappointment, the wraps didn’t work, so they had to look at alternative methods. They spent the next 17 years trying to protect herring eggs in a variety of compromised environments, adapting their successes to each new challenge they encountered, only to discover there are larger forces impacting Pacific Herring populations off the coast of British Columbia.