‘It’s collapsing’: B.C. First Nations, Pacific Wild warn of herring population decline amid commercial fishery
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4 min. readAdvocates are calling for a moratorium on the province's last-remaining commercial fishery for herring, a...
Salmon farm reapplies for three-year permit to dump sea lice pesticide in B.C. coastal waters
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Cermaq has applied for a new permit to dump almost 3,000 bathtubs of a sea...
Tsilhqot’in Nation fights B.C.’s approval of Gibraltar mine’s waste discharge into Fraser River
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A provincial permit allows the mine to discharge the equivalent of nearly 10 Olympic-sized swimming...
Unique Skeena sockeye populations at risk of dying out, threatening biodiversity: study
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The lack of biodiversity puts sockeye salmon at a disadvantage when adapting to their environment,...
Decades of cuts to salmon monitoring leave B.C. scientists uncertain of fish populations
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Less than 10 per cent of spawning habitat on B.C.’s central and north coast is...
B.C.’s ‘dirty secret’: more than 100 contaminated mine sites threaten water, wildlife and communities
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New research finds lax provincial regulations allow companies to discharge toxic wastewater with metal concentrations...
I’m blue da ba dee da ba daa (and so are B.C. salmon)
Remember when wild salmon in B.C. were plentiful? Changes to the farmed salmon industry could...
Want to save B.C. salmon? Bring back Indigenous fishing systems, study says
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Traditional technologies, harvesting practices and management systems could bring endangered populations back from the brink,...
Fish out of water: How B.C.’s salmon farmers fell behind the curve of sustainable, land-based aquaculture
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Public and political pressure to remove open net pens from the province’s coastal waters has...
