Huge False Creek herring spawn surprises conservationists

A B.C. conservationist says artificial herring-spawning nets installed in Vancouver have brought remarkable results this year.
Six years ago, Jonn Matsen of the Squamish Streamkeepers Society and his group hung 2.8-square-metre, artificial spawning nets from Fisherman’s Wharf in False Creek, after seeing dead herring eggs attached to the creosote-soaked pilings that had taken place of local eelgrass beds when the dock was built. 
In January of this year, 300 million of the plankton-fe