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The fishing methods employed fall under the category of artisanal fishing. They employ low-technology, traditional fishing techniques like net-fishing, stone-fishing and weir fishing. The five species of Pacific salmon found in British Columbia waters are Sockeye, Pink, Chum, Coho, and Chinook.
The Yalakom River is a tributary of the Bridge River, which is one of the principal tributaries of the Fraser River, entering it near the town of Lillooet, British Columbia. In frontier times it was also known as the North Fork of the Bridge River , and joins the Bridge River proper at Moha , a rural community with a history in ranching ...
In the 1950s and 1960s, the cultural focus of British Columbia's protected areas shifted from game management to conservation. As a result, in 1961 the Bowron Lakes Game Reserve was changed to Bowron Lake Provincial Park, and the park received its largest land increases with the addition of the Betty Wendle and Wolverine drainage systems and ...
The Salmon River is a river in the Shuswap region of British Columbia, Canada. The river arises in the mountains between Kamloops and Kelowna . It flows west to Salmon Lake , then issues northeastward and descends into a broad valley near Westwold .
Wasa Lake is a lake in British Columbia, Canada. It has an area of 1.1473 km 2. It is 37.5 km north of Cranbrook. Wasa Lake Provincial Park sits at the northern end of the lake. [1] It was named in 1902 after the city Vaasa in Finland. It was formerly known as 'Hanson lake'. [2]
Around its shores is a community of recreational homes, and near its southern end had been an older fishing lodge, the Tyaughton Lake Lodge, while on its northwestern shore is the Tyax Mountain Lake Resort, built in the 1980s, which at the time of construction was the largest log structure built in British Columbia in the 20th Century. [2]
The Fraser River (/ ˈ f r eɪ z ər /) is the longest river within British Columbia, Canada, rising at Fraser Pass near Blackrock Mountain in the Rocky Mountains and flowing for 1,375 kilometres (854 mi), into the Strait of Georgia just south of the City of Vancouver.
It flows through the Elk Valley in a southwesterly direction, joining the Kootenay River in Lake Koocanusa, just north of the British Columbia-Montana border. Its waters ultimately join the Columbia River and flow towards the Pacific Ocean. The Elk River runs through the communities of Elkford, Sparwood, Hosmer, Fernie, and Elko.