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 ...

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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 ...

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 ...

Stan is one of the last remaining contracted creekwalkers in BC – he estimates from north Vancouver Island to Prince Rupert, there are only five left. Photo Credit: Roland Gockel. Stan Hutchings is ...

Ken Hardie, Liberal MP for Fleetwood - Port Kells and also a lead government member on Parliament's standing committee on fisheries, stated that he would ensure the minister receives the message. Ken ...

Increase in marine traffic could cause more collisions between large whales and even larger ships. This puts humpback whales at risk. Photo credit: BC Whales The peer-reviewed study, authored by ...

"Indigenous guardians are the eyes and ears of their lands and waters. They don’t just monitor and manage their territories, they practice and embody their laws, know where their family lineages lie ...

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 ...

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Katie Gair (TRRS) describes the deployment of portable aeration units in refuge pools of the Tsolum River to increase the survival of pink salmon adults returning to spawn. Allan Chamberlain (TRRS) ...

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