Subjects: MAV, FVT, CPG

Media Advisory - Fisheries and Oceans Canada and the Government of British Columbia to provide further updates on the Fraser River Canyon Rock Slide

VANCOUVER, July 3, 2019 /CNW/ - Officials from the Department of Fisheries and Oceans and the Province of British Columbia as well as a representative from the Upper Fraser Fisheries Conservation Alliance will to provide further updates and answer questions regarding a significant rock slide that occurred upstream of a narrow portion of the Fraser River near Big Bar.  The obstruction raises concerns about whether salmon migrating upstream can reach their spawning grounds.

 

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SOURCE Fisheries and Oceans Canada, Pacific Region

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