BC Sportfishing

* A fur trader named Simon Fraser was disappointed when he discovered the river that he and his crew of 24 explorers was not the Columbia river as expected, in fact it was a river system that would be named after him, The Fraser River.

* The Fraser River is home to North Americas largest game fish, The White Sturgeon

* The Fraser flows 1375 kms from the Rocky Mountains to the Pacific Ocean.

* The Fraser drains a watershed of 233,000 square kilometres, about 1/3 of British Columbia.

* The Fraser's average rate of flow ranges from less than 850 cms(cubic metres/second) in winter to well over 7,000 cms during spring runoff.

* The Fraser carries about 270,000 cubic metres of gravel past the Agassiz-Rosedale bridge every year.

* The Fraser River's floodplain measures 75,000 hectares between Hope and the river-mouth.

* The lower Fraser Valley supports more than 300 species of resident and migratory birds.

* The Fraser River system supports 41 species of freshwater fish. Nineteen species of migratory or marine fish use the Fraser River during some part of their life cycles.

* The Fraser River system produces more salmon than any other river system in the world. The spawning run of pink salmon is the largest in B.C.

* The Fraser is the largest river in British Columbia.

* The Fraser River is the fifth largest river in Canada.

* All of Great Britain would fit into the Fraser’s watershed.