I'll admit I know little about this particular gravel site but as a general observation it boggles my mind to think that given today's serious conservation concerns around salmon, steelhead and sturgeon that any potentially significant spawning/rearing/habitat along the Fraser would be allowed to be excavated for gravel. I remember a few years back speaking with the director of the sturgeon conservation society about a gravel extraction proposed project that was in 1 of the 2 most important known sturgeon spawning locations on the Fraser. She literally could not think of a worse place to extract gravel from a sturgeon's perspective yet this project was (at the time) green-lighted in part b/c it had FN backing. All this talk about re-vamping the environmental assessments better start happening sooner than later as there are currently far too many prime habitats being destroyed and once destroyed they take a long, long time to come back.