Yes.
I grew up in a commercial fishing family, and first went deckhanding on trollers out of Porlier Pass when I was 12.
In that time Vancouver has grown like a bad cancer, spewing toxins and pollution into the Gulf unchecked by the people that live in the GVRD. 
Econards flee the city every weekend, and destroy the Gulf Islands in their quest to "get back to nature".
The resident Killer Whales used to feed on the Chinook salmon and Herring that have been wiped out by development in the Fraser River estuary...not by tankers.