Michelle Gamage is a journalist and photographer based in Vancouver with an environmental beat. You can find her on Twitter @Michelle Gamage. SHARES Half the Fraser River’s juvenile Chinook salmon stay in the estuary for an average of six weeks when transitioning from fresh to salt water, but that habitat is fast shrinking.
Photo by Michael O. Snyder, courtesy of Raincoast Conservation Foundation.
The southern coastline of mainland British Columbia is a world of mud flats, tangles of reeds and boggy marsh that fills and empties with the tides. The silty, often goopy waters may, at first, seem a pale comparison to the dramatic coastline to the north, where crashing waves meet rocky shores and walls of ancient pines but there’s more to this marsh than meets the eye.