Local anglers, first responders warn about dangers of river fishing 
By Deborah Goble CA Source: CBC News 10/30/2019
Deborah Goble
For more than 20 years, Reza Jaberi has been fishing along the Capilano River nearly every day.

He's seen a lot of people come to the river to fish but only needs two categories to identify them: "local" and "unlocal."

"First time or second time, they don't know this beautiful river [is] sometimes so dangerous," he says in reference to the latter group.

Jaberi was at the river Sunday when two young men fell in the water. One of them was able to cling to a rock until he was rescued. The other was pulled out in medical distress, and died later in hospital.
 

Jaberi believes while people are increasingly taking bigger risks when fishing, there's also a level of carelessness involved to the point where he has to remind other fishers to tie their shoes so they don't slip by accident.
Rescues more common than reported

Before he immigrated to Canada, Jaberi's brother died after falling into a river in his home country of Iran.

Shortly after, he decided to become a lifeguard.

"It doesn't matter which location, which beach, which river. Automatically, I look at people and always I'm ready to help."

On Sunday, however, Jaberi was too far away to help directly and was only able to shout advice from afar.

Jaberi say anglers fall in far more often than gets reported.

"I think, nine times I catch the people from this river, but no media, no photographer," he said.

 
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