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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

"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 ...

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 ...

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) ...

[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 Salish Heron is the newest ferry in the BC Ferries fleet. The artwork on the sides is by Coast Salish artist Maynard Johnny Jr. This vessel is part of the Salish class fleet, which honours the ...

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 ...

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 ...