The significant decrease in Coho and Chinook salmon runs in southern British Columbia dates back to the 1990s, coinciding with the first launch of salmon farming operations. Photo credit: Cermaq ...

This is why what Cermaq Canada, a Norwegian fish farming conglomerate owned by Mitsubishi, is doing in Clayoquot Sound is perplexing many concerned citizens. First Nations and environmentalists are ...

An oil tanker at the terminus of the Transmountain Pipeline. TMX's port in Burnaby is too shallow for modern supertankers. Vancouver Island communities along the South Coast are coming together to ...

Drought-related hardships compound the challenges that salmon already face due to habitat degradation and overfishing. Photo Source: Pacific Salmon Foundation. Eric’s research focuses on understanding ...

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British Columbia has entered its Liquified Natural Gas LNG (LNG) era – and it might not be as clean as its proponents may have you think. Public health experts are concerned that the impact of ...

Prince Rupert crab fisher Chelsey Ellis working on a boat. Photo Credit: Chelsey Ellis Photography If you’ve ever wondered how, where, and when that Dungeness crab on your plate was caught, Prince ...

A dead herring with a louse attached to it. Juvenile herring caught in salmon hydrolicing are killed, and experience injuries such as having their eyes blown out. Photo credit: Clayoquot Action An ...

Joyce Murray (pictured on the left) is one of the two former Fisheries ministers named in Mowi's lawsuit. Photo Credits: Joyce Murray and Mowi Canada West on Facebook. The Discovery Islands are ...

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If you ask B.C.’s Daniel Pauly–who is possibly the most influential fisheries scientist in the world–why parts of the sea should be off-limits to all human activities, he might answer with one ...