DFO

Government documents obtained by Canada's National Observer show that Fisheries and Oceans Canada, already struggling to meet its core services with spiking climate change costs is forecasting at minimum a $100 million budget deficit annually.

Fisheries and Oceans Canada (DFO) staff were unimpressed with the proposed framework to address the surging problem of noise pollution, internal communications obtained by Canada’s National Observer suggest.

Deep Water Recovery is facing another warning and threat of fines for its controversial Vancouver Island ship breaking operation on the shores of Baynes Sound.

Overfishing, combined with finning — a cruel and wasteful practice where live sharks are caught during targeted fisheries or as bycatch, then have their fins sliced off before discarded overboard to die are pushing shark populations to the brink of extinction.

Climate change and over harvesting continue to put Canadian fisheries at risk along with Indigenous and coastal communities’ food security and economic wellbeing, a new report indicates.

West coast environmental groups argue no measure would save southern resident whales from a catastrophic oil spill.

WSÁNEĆ Hereditary chiefs are urging federal Fisheries Minister Diane Lebouthillier to close the last commercial herring fishery operating along the West Coast.

The federal government had promised to phase out the farms by next year, but Fisheries Minister Diane Lebouthillier says she will allow aquaculture farms to renew their licences in what is a "responsible, realistic and achievable transition" away from the ocean farms. 

A coalition of conservation groups has called for the use of emergency protections to protect endangered southern resident killer whales from the increased oil tanker traffic due to the expanded Trans Mountain (TMX) pipeline.

A new senate report details how reliant the Inuit and some coastal community economies are on the seal trade — and how badly their economies were devastated by the collapse of the European Union market for their products after campaigning by Paul McCartney and other activists.

Coastal cleanup groups are worried because the federal Ghost Gear Fund — which sunk nearly $60 million into 139 projects to alleviate the problem of ocean plastics — isn’t outlined in the recent federal budget.

Canada's East Coast regulations are geared to limit corporate control and protect coastal fishing communities while West Coast harvesters flounder under a different set of rules.

A new pilot project to help B.C. conservation groups and First Nations bring emergency aid to struggling salmon saw one team try to provide the breath of life to suffocating fish.

Seventeen-year-old Parker Morrison is leading her community’s efforts in Kamloops, B.C., to get rusted cars out of a bank on the Thompson River. 

A new integrated network of hydrophones along the B.C. coast will allow the public and researchers to listen underwater to the magic of whale sounds and how they can be used to protect marine mammals into the future.