"I got the fateful phone call from one of the guys who came in to clean the tanks," Terry Sawchenko, manager of the Hyde Creek Hatchery told Global News.

The Hoy-Scott Watershed society estimates 80 per cent of the juvenile salmon at its hatchery are dead.

David Weale was camping along the Capilano River in late July, which is prohibited, when he encountered a black bear sniffing around his tent - with only a thin piece of mesh to protect him.