Among the contributing factors is the use of gill nets set by commercial and First Nations fisheries. Estrada also spends time on the Fraser River tagging juvenile sturgeon to create better tracking data for the future. A sturgeon on the Lower Fraser River caught in a gill net. 's Fraser River. He calls the decline of sturgeon stocks on the Lower Fraser "an ecological catastrophe."

Source: CBC News January 11, 2019 12:00 UTC