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Watershed Protection

Main office address:
625 Fisgard Street
Victoria, British Columbia
Canada V8W 1R7
tel: 250.360.3000

Portage Inlet

Multi-agency / Community Stewardship Groups

The Esquimalt Anglers are active in coho enhancement on Craigflower Creek and operate a smolt trap and counting fence.

The Portage Inlet Sanctuary Colquitz Estuary Society (PISCES) was organized "to promote and foster the preservation of Portage Inlet as a Federal Bird Sanctuary; to assist in and further the protection of Portage Inlet, the Gorge Waterway, Colquitz Estuary, and Cuthbert Holmes Park from physical, social, ecological and environmental harm."

Contact info:
1121 Skeena Place
Victoria V8Z 1L8
250.479.1877
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The Portage Inlet Protection Society (PIPS) was formed "to maintain and enhance Portage Inlet/Gorge Waterway and its watersheds, to provide a healthy environment for human and other natural communities in perpetuity while protecting private property rights of those who live by its shores."

Contact info:
Terry Eckstein, President
250.388.0398
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The Victoria and Esquimalt Harbours Environmental Action Program (VEHEAP) is an intergovernmental initiative working to protect and improve the environmental quality of the harbour areas.