Fish and Pollution
 Many of the Fraser River's richest
salmon streams flow through the most heavily populated
and fastest-growing area of the Fraser Basin - the
Lower Fraser Valley and Fraser River
Estuary. Click the thumbnail to the right
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The small tributaries of the
Lower Fraser River between Vancouver and Hope, British
Columbia, support 80 per cent of the Fraser's chinook
salmon and 90 per cent of its chum, 65 percent of its coho, 80 per cent of its pink and a significant
percentage of its sockeye salmon. One of the many
factors affecting the survival of Fraser River salmon
stocks is the quality of water in the streams and lakes
that provide spawning, rearing and migratory
habitat.
To learn more about the
Fisheries Act, fish habitat requirements of
salmonids in the Lower Fraser Basin of British Columbia
and how pollution affects fish and fish habitat, use
the navigation buttons to the left.
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