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Feds approve Tilbury LNG jetty in Delta, B.C.

The federal government just gave the Tilbury LNG marine jetty in Delta, B.C. its stamp of approval.

By Natasha Bulowski | News, Energy, Ottawa Insider | July 8th 2024

An Atlantic salmon is seen during a Department of Fisheries and Oceans fish health audit at a fish farm near Campbell River, B.C., Wednesday, Oct. 31, 2018. Photo by: The Canadian Press/Jonathan Hayward

Feds flip and allow B.C.'s open-net salmon farms to remain open until 2029

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.

By The Canadian Press | News | June 19th 2024

Salmon require cold, fast-flowing streams and rivers to spawn. Photo by: Flickr/Bureau of Land Management

What would the salmon say?

Let's start with 'the water is too hot.' Salmon like 12 to 15 degrees. The heat compounds what’s known around the lab as 'the river gauntlet' — seine boats at the river mouth, habitat degradation upstream and now ever higher temperatures bringing new pathogens, disease and lethal stream water.

Opinion

By Chris Hatch | Opinion | May 27th 2024

Pterygophora kelp grows in new sediment in the Strait of Juan de Fuca after the Elwha River Dam was breached in 2011. Photo by Ian Miller/Washington Sea Grant

When dams come down, what about the ocean?

A long-term study of the Elwha River Delta reveals lasting change — and a healthier ecosystem.

Race Against Climate Change

By Natalia Mesa | News | May 14th 2024

Vancouver Island community mourns fish lost as B.C. drought again heightens risk

Project 84,000 is intended to depict the number of steelhead and trout that died in a massive fish kill in the drought-stricken Cowichan River on southern Vancouver Island last year.

By Nono Shen | News | May 8th 2024

What to feed farmed salmon?

On land fish farming is presented as an alternative to growing salmon in the ocean. Proponents point to it as a viable alternative since there is no contact between the farmed fish and wild species. However, salmon farmed in the ocean and on land face a mutual dilemma: the ecological toll of fish feed. A Nova Scotia company is working to change that.

By Cloe Logan | News, Climate Solutions Reporting | March 18th 2024

An artist's rendering of the Ksi Lisims LNG project in northern B.C. Screenshot

First Nation challenges LNG project over climate, salmon concerns

Gitanyow is prepared to challenge Ksi Lisims with every option, even the courts, over what they say is “one-sided and industry-driven” consultation on its LNG project in northern B.C.

By Matteo Cimellaro | News, Urban Indigenous Communities in Ottawa | February 16th 2024

As glaciers melt, potential salmon habitat collides with outdated mining laws

In Alaska and British Columbia, climate change may open new rivers to fish – and to gold mines.

Race Against Climate Change

By Maya L. Kapoor | News | February 7th 2024

As salmon disappear, the battle over Alaska fishing rights heats up

A legal fight is ramping up over who should manage Alaska's dwindling salmon populations — and who gets access to them.

Race Against Climate Change

By Max Graham | News | January 8th 2024

Swimming for salmon in the backwoods

On a rare sunny late October day, a quartet of swimmers gathered around a deep pool on the Tranquil River in Clayoquot Sound ready to immerse themselves in the frigid water with hundreds of huge salmon swimming upstream to spawn.

By Marc Fawcett-Atkinson | News | November 23rd 2023

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