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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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Forest fires are the second largest source of fine particulate matter from wood smoke in the province. These fires can have a significant impact on local air quality, visibility, and human health.

Flames from the Donnie Creek wildfire burning along a ridge-top near Fort St John, B.C. Source: Ricardo Guevara on Facebook. Photo Credit: Noah Berger. In one of the worst forest fire seasons in this ...