Will reviving B.C.’s declining salmon stocks require a rethink of hatcheries?
After 150 years of experimenting, it’s becoming clear that pumping more baby fish into the...
Most of Canada’s marine protected areas still threatened by oil and gas, dumping and trawling: report
A new assessment from the Canadian Parks and Wilderness Society finds only a fraction of...
‘We need that plan’: 109 B.C. fish farm licences soon set to expire, but federal transition strategy missing
On the heels of a new stakeholder engagement report from Fisheries and Oceans Canada, scientists...
5 ways the climate crisis is changing the ocean and threatening human health
Ocean waters are now warmer, more acidic and hold less oxygen. They’re also stressed from...
Freeing Nova Scotia’s oysters from a parasite’s hold
Armed with Traditional Knowledge and modern science, a small team hunts for the sweet spot...
‘It’s collapsing’: B.C. First Nations, Pacific Wild warn of herring population decline amid commercial fishery
Advocates are calling for a moratorium on the province's last-remaining commercial fishery for herring, a...
B.C. First Nations, Fisheries and Oceans Canada protect crab for Indigenous food, social and ceremonial purposes
Groups agree to close 17 Dungeness crab harvest sites on the central coast to commercial...
B.C. relying on the federal shoreline protections for Trans Mountain pipeline it previously called inadequate
In advance of granting new environmental certificates for the pipeline’s expansion project, the province has...
Atlantic cod rebuilding plan undermines scientific evidence and Indigenous Knowledge: critics
Fisheries and Oceans Canada’s roadmap to save critically depleted species fails to address overfishing and...
