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[Sam6140]

Yesterday evening, I was sitting shotgun going over the Golden Ears Bridge.  Looking at the river in the near distance, just west of the bridge, I saw something dark surfacing in the river and moving around, and then it blew water up into the air like a whale!  At first I
thought it was a large seal, but then it blew water.  Do whales ever come that far up the river?  If not a whale, what the heck was it? 

[Golfer]

 http://www.dfo-mpo.gc.ca/species-especes/species-especes/harbourporpoise-pac-marsouin-eng.htm

Here is a possibility

[Sam6140]

Thanks, I read that link and some stuff about them on wiki.  I think you're right, was probably a harbor porpoise.

[Alomar]

Sea lion

[Rantalot]

Here is a story from 2007 http://www.canada.com/theprovince/news/story.html?id=a5f95f0a-d296-4313-b8c4-56773266e6c3

[Archer]

It was that 16 foot Sturgeon I have been looking for! 

[barklee]

Actually last month a few people down at New West Quay saw killer whales on the Fraser. So many different people this couldn't be coincedence, and now that you said you saw a whale.

One guy said that he saw it attack a seal and there are a lot of seal around that area chasing fish and slapping their flippers.

I don't know but maybe?

[sg6804]

There were reports of a large seal lion in that area this spring feeding on Sturgeon , chances are that's what you saw ,hopefully he is now after salmon 

Pete

[Rantalot]

Sea lions have blow holes?

[chronicfisher]

Sea lions have blow holes?

Yep but theirs is located behind the hip.

[Damien]

Yes, between their legs.

[Sam6140]

Blow hole, people.  Therefore not a sea lion.  And i wouldn't be surprised if it was a killer whale, due to size and the amount of water it blew and how high the blown water went.  It looked black from the distance I saw it at.  Well part of it was black at least...like the back of a killer whale.

[Sam6140]

Seeing some refresher videos on killer whales in the water...that looks like what I saw.  It's large black back...blow hole..etc.  And I read they prefer Chinook Salmon over others, and are probably following and chasing after them in the river.

[MetalAndFeathers]

Email the vancouver aquarium about you`re sighting.I reported a sighting of them in the howe sound last year and they told me about other sighhtings that ocurred the day before.Maybe there has been other sighting we are unaware of.

MandF

[SkagitDreamer]

http://www.sanjuanorcas.com/orca-encounters-blog

On 7/2/14 some were seen heading for the Fraser... Scroll almost halfway down to see that specific note.
Crazy good sighting! What an amazing part of the world we live in.