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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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 ...

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) ...

"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 ...

[This story originally appeared on The North Coast Review, a blog based in Prince Rupert that contains “items of interest to those living on the North Coast of BC.”] Friday evening will bring an ...

The existence of Sasquatch–a Salish word for a large, hairy, ape-like North American mammal also called Bigfoot–is hotly debated. The body of an actual Sasquatch has never been found. But that hasn’t ...

This spill is approximately eight times larger in volume than the 2017 Cermaq spill at Echo Bay. Photo credit: Ministry of Environment and Parks A fish farm operated by Norwegian aquaculture company ...

Have you ever wondered if fish fart? They do, sort of. A swim bladder is “like an internal balloon that helps fish stay at a specific depth without having to expend too much energy.” Hakai Institute ...

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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A dead fry from Cowichan River. According to the Cowichan Lake and River Stewardship Society, a new and higher weir on the Cowichan River would have provided the additional water storage needed to ...