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CTV News
6 days ago
- General
- CTV News
Delta float home owners plead with government to dredge secondary channels of Fraser River
Low tide happens twice a day at Canoe Pass Village, a float home community in Delta. And when it does, Joanne Granek has to hoist herself about three feet up onto her deck to enter her house. 'If I come back with groceries, I can't lift them in. If I have garbage to pull out, I can't step down with it. Right now, my granddaughter is visiting. We have to have three people move her stroller to get her down to the dock because of this,' said Granek. Other homes in the community are visibly tilted during high tide. 'Things fall out of cupboards, lamps fall over, pictures fall off walls,' said strata member Ted Dufresne. 'And just trying to walk, negotiate stairs with some elderly people who have some mobility issues, that can be very tragic.' It's all the result of too much silt building up under Canoe Pass Village, which is located on a secondary channel of the Fraser River. 'The Port of Vancouver used to do the secondary dredging,' said Delta mayor George Harvie. 'And then all of a sudden they just said, we're not going to do it anymore. It was minuscule, the amount of the budget.' The federal and provincial governments haven't stepped up to dredge the secondary channels, so the silt is washing down the river into the floating village. 'If something serious were to happen during an extreme low tide here, the ability of ambulances to even access the house and the injured person inside could be really challenged. Not to mention even to put a gurney down the walkways, that could be compromised because they're tilted,' said Dufresne. Delta's mayor and its Conservative MLA are calling on the province and the feds to fund a dredging program. 'Everybody is on side except two people: the governing body in Victoria and the governing body in the federal government. So we need to continue to press,' said Harvie. Because the situation has gotten so dire, residents of Canoe Pass Village spent $80,000 to apply for a permit to dredge the water underneath the float homes themselves. If they get permission to do it, it would cost an estimated one million dollars split between the 43 homeowners. 'We still don't have a permit. But if we did it this year, if we got it done in the fall, within a year, a year and a half, we're going to be back into the same problem because they're not doing the river,' said Granek. The new Liberal member of Parliament for the riding says she's looking for a fix. 'I have spent many years in Ladner village and growing up in Delta. I'm certainly very familiar with the need for the dredging of the secondary channels, the need for a long-term solution,' said Delta MP Jill McKnight. For Canoe Pass Village float home owners, help can't come fast enough. 'It's lovely to feel supported,' said Granek, 'But I need action. We need action here.'
CTV News
10-07-2025
- Sport
- CTV News
Massive sturgeon fish captured near Lillooet
Massive sturgeon fish captured near Lillooet Some anglers are celebrating a record-breaking catch in the Fraser River near Lillooet this week.
CBC
10-07-2025
- General
- CBC
Fishers in Lillooet, B.C., hook massive 700-pound sturgeon in Fraser River
Fishers in Lillooet, B.C., hook massive 700-pound sturgeon in Fraser River News Duration 1:12 A group of fishermen in B.C.'s Interior are still raving about what they reeled in recently. They were on the Fraser River near Lillooet on Monday, when one of their hooks caught a three-metre-long white sturgeon weighing more than 700 pounds.
CTV News
10-07-2025
- Sport
- CTV News
Massive sturgeon caught near Lillooet
Vancouver Watch Some anglers are celebrating a massive catch in the Fraser River near Lillooet this week.
CTV News
09-07-2025
- General
- CTV News
‘Estimated to be over 120 years old': Massive sturgeon caught in B.C.'s Fraser River
River Monster Adventures says a group fishing just south of Lillooet on Monday was able to reel in a massive sturgeon that had become something of a legend among the company's team. (River Monster Adventures) A Chilliwack-based fishing charter company that specializes in Fraser River sturgeon has landed the largest fish in its history. River Monster Adventures says a group fishing just south of Lillooet on Monday was able to reel in a massive sturgeon that had become something of a legend among the company's team. The nearly 3.1-metre (10′2″) fish is known as 'Ghost,' because it has 'ghosted' the company's anglers for more than a decade. 'Over the years, we believe we've caught glimpses of him, either on our sonar or possibly breaching, but actual sightings have been extremely rare,' said Jen Shareski, of River Monster Adventures, in an email to CTV News. 'As far as we know, no one else has ever caught Ghost before this.' The crew fishing that day included two repeat clients, a deckhand and a captain, who spent more than an hour reeling in the fish with 'a total team effort,' Shareski said. River Monster Adventures (River Monster Adventures) 'Ghost is easily identified by his curled dorsal fins, a rare feature that marks him as a very old fish, estimated to be over 120 years old,' she said. Despite its advanced age, the fish did not have a tag, which is one of the reasons River Monster Adventures suspects it has never been caught before. 'We are strictly catch and release, and we're proud to be part of the sturgeon conservation tagging program,' Shareski said. 'Before releasing Ghost back into the river, we tagged him and recorded all the relevant data to support ongoing conservation efforts.' According to Fisheries and Oceans Canada, white sturgeon are the largest freshwater fish in Canada, and they've existed relatively unchanged for millions of years. In a critical state of decline in some parts of B.C., the bottom-feeding fish is among the wildlife protected under the Species at Risk Act. Species living in the Nechako River, Upper Columbia River, Upper Fraser River and Upper Kootenay River are all protected by the federal act. The Fraser River Sturgeon Conservation Society says white sturgeon can live well over 150 years, and can grow up to six metres in length.
