A person painting a yellow fish on the roadway

Yellow Fish Program

Get involved

Arrange to pick up your free marking kit and start painting.

Sign up and choose
a catch basin to mark

Help us mark yellow fish symbols next to catch basins to raise awareness about protecting our waterways.

When you participate, you help remind everyone that what enters these drains can affect local wildlife, including fish and ducks.

What's happeningAttend an upcoming marking event

Jonathan Rogers Park Yellow Fish catch basin marking

Sunday, September 21, 10:30am to noon
Jonathan Rogers Park, 110 W 7th Ave (at Manitoba St)

Register your interest


Have you seen a Yellow Fish marking in your neighbourhood?

Enter our photo contest by emailing a photo of the marked catch basin and its location to yellowfish@vancouver.ca and you will be entered into a random draw.

Other ways to support our city

Volunteer as a Snow Angel

Help seniors and people with limited mobility clear their sidewalks after a snowfall.

Adopt a catch basin

Help prevent flooding in your neighbourhood, adopt a catch basin to care for.

Neighbourhood cleanup programs

Volunteer with our neighbourhood cleanup programs and help keep our city clean and contribute to Vancouver’s zero waste goals.

Apply to be a Green Streets volunteer

Apply to be a volunteer gardener and officially register your street garden with our Green Streets Program.