The crew of a fishing boat found a body floating in the Fraser River Monday evening near the Massey Tunnel.
The discovery was made around 5:30 p.m. Monday, less than a kilometre from the tunnel. The crew waited until the coast guard's hovercraft arrived from its Sea Island base in Richmond.
The remains, according to Richmond Mounties, are in relation to a missing Surrey person and the body has since been turned over to the BC Coroners Service.
Police, however, doubt it is the same body that on Friday slipped out of another fisherman's net further upstream in Chilliwack.
"We don't believe it was a boating accident," said coast guard maritime coordinator Troy Haddock.
Lower Mainland RCMP Insp. Davis Wendell said it is very early in the investigation, but the descriptions of the two bodies don't seem to match.
"I don't believe it's the same person," he said. Wendell said it's not unusual for authorities to find bodies in B.C.'s biggest river. A search was launched on Saturday after another body found by a fisherman slipped back into the river before it could be brought to shore.
The RCMP is asking anyone with more information to contact them at 604-792-4611 or leave an anonymous tip with Crime Stoppers at 1-800-222-8477.
With files from the Richmond News, Chilliwack Times
