Despite releasing its wild salmon policy 15 years ago, Fisheries and Oceans Canada has made little headway in stabilizing the decline of wild salmon, much less restoring at-risk populations, a parliamentary committee concluded this week.
Mystic Aquarium in Connecticut is preparing for the arrival of five Beluga whales from Canada after navigating approval processes on both sides of the U.S. border and overcoming legal challenges from environmental groups.
Hundreds of B.C. spot prawn harvesters might soon be out of work thanks to a recent decision by Fisheries and Oceans Canada that makes selling spot prawns frozen at sea illegal.
Canada’s longest coastline in the world, along with the U.S.’s largest exclusive economic zone, makes for an ocean-based North American blue economy powerhouse of the future, writes Kate Moran.
An ambitious project to map and monitor sea kelp forests along the entire B.C. coast is afoot, and scientists are using seemly disparate tools — both ancient and modern — to do it.
The Canadian Coast Guard will report whale sightings in real time from a new marine mammal desk established to protect endangered southern resident killer whales and other cetaceans in British Columbia waters.
A West Coast MP is urging Ottawa to craft a transition plan with those affected by the potential employment and economic impacts of a recent decision to phase out fish farms in the Discovery Islands.
Fish farm opponents on the West Coast are jubilant after Ottawa’s announcement Thursday that operations in the Discovery Islands are being phased out over the next 18 months.
Bernadette Jordan announced Thursday that contentious fish farms in the Discovery Islands on the West Coast will be phased out over the next 18 months.