wild salmon

Fish farmers in British Columbia have four years to show their open-net operations don't harm wild salmon and to get approval from First Nations to locate them in their territories as part of new rules introduced on Wednesday, June 20, 2018.

Premier John Horgan says addressing British Columbia's housing crisis is his government's top priority in 2018, but it's not the only pressing concern on his minority New Democrat government's to-do list.

Environment Canada is investigating allegations that fish plants in British Columbia are spewing virus-laden bloody water from processed, farmed salmon into the water off the coast of Vancouver Island.

Three wild salmon advocates have been summoned to a B.C. court for their peaceful occupation of fish farms in Broughton Archipelago.

Not a single wild Atlantic salmon was found in a New Brunswick river that was once home to a healthy population of the species, alarming conservationists.

"DFO is compromised," Morton said, criticizing the federal government for its decision last month to grant six-year licenses to companies farming salmon in open-net pens along the coast.

Dominic LeBlanc says the Department of Fisheries and Oceans' mandate to preserve fisheries is fundamental to its responsibility to promote a sustainable salmon-farming sector.