Below are some links to interesting articles relating to the Fraser River...

Environmental Hazards and Conflicts Threatening Fish Habitat in the Lower Fraser River

and its Estuary - A Fisheries Perspective

   By: Otto E. Langer, R.P. Bio

This article, written for Fishing Fever by the renowned water quality and habitat biologist Otto E. Langer, R.P. Bio, discusses the Fraser River past and present. It gives a brief history of the Fraser River and the impact of human development as well as natural geologic events. The article focuses on the Lower Fraser Valley from Hope to Steveston, 0.7% of B.C.'s area but home to 65% of its population. Specifically it identifies threats to the fishery habitat of the Lower Fraser River and what can be done to save it in the face of increasing population growth and industrial development...

The Heart of the Fraser

By Mark Angelo

Included in Fishing Fever, this article reviews a new initiative that aims to better protect the Hope to Mission section of the Fraser River, perhaps the most productive stretch of river anywhere in the world...