Another bleak year for salmon returns is being forecast by federal officials, prompting predictions that this could turn out to be a disastrous season for the commercial fishing industry.
Nearly all the glaciers in B.C. have retreated to the point where they are no longer revealing new habitat suitable for salmon, but that isn't the case everywhere.
The university, renowned for its commitment to sustainability, is fighting a $1.2 million fine that would fund habitat restoration in the damaged watershed.
Thirty years ago, tribes and conservation organizations had to submit petitions listing Snake River salmon under the Endangered Species Act because the federal agencies would not take action.
T2 would also force juvenile salmon from their shoreline habitat, impacting salmon populations, including decline of a major food source for the endangered southern resident killer whales.
A project that gets underway Monday will make it possible for coho salmon and cutthroat trout to get to areas where Mother Nature intended them to swim.
If biologists’ predictions come true, there will likely be ‘zero to extremely limited’ commercial salmon fishing opportunities on British Columbia’s Fraser River in 2020.
South Burnaby environmentalists are cheering a discovery last week in what they call a “battered” urban creek. Volunteers spotted fry (baby salmon) in Byrne Creek on Burnaby's south slope.
The latest snowpack numbers are in for British Columbia, indicating that several areas around the province are at a heightened risk of flooding heading into spring.
The report said the province's continued interest in expanding production and export of fossil fuels suggests there's little political will to think about a plan to move away from those industries.
Companies can operate mines in the province without any assurance they can cover the full costs of reclamation activities and a new annual report — which finds liabilities have grown to $2.8 billion — is emboldening calls for regulatory reform.
“When settlers arrived, you could drink the water from our creeks. Now, in 50 years, you can’t drink the water from our lakes or creeks or eat the vegetation on our lakeshore.”
The Supreme Court of Canada has declined to hear five challenges related to the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion, removing another legal hurdle for the project.
As part of the third and final call for proposals under the Coastal Restoration Fund, more than $13 million in funding was provided for an additional 24 projects to help restore and protect aquatic ecosystems on Canada’s three coasts.
As the new home of North America’s first beluga whale sanctuary, the District of St. Mary’s is well on its way to becoming a world leader in job-generating ecotourism, says MP Sean Fraser.
Lawyers on behalf of a group of wildlife advocates in Newfoundlnd argued last fall that the minister's decision was not valid because he did not consider the impacts when the hatched fish are released into sea cages.
"Canadian scientist Philip Marsh and I were flying along the coast of the Beaufort Sea, where the frozen tundra had recently opened up into a crater the size of a football stadium."
Despite calls to remove the dams to save salmon and orcas, federal agencies say the risks to hydropower, navigation and electricity costs are too high.
The Pacific Fishery Management Council has adopted three alternatives for 2020 ocean salmon fisheries off of Washington, Oregon and California for public review.
If our county administrators continue to repeat the same poor land-use decisions of the past that allowed creeks to be degraded and coho salmon to become critically endangered, these restoration efforts can be, at best, akin to simply treading water — not reversing the extinction trajectory these fish face.
Keeping us hopeful are national examples of creative partnerships that work at the intersection of affordable housing and conservation protection. It’s one of the reasons we’re paying close attention to, and learning from, the work of the Conserving Carolina land trust.
Bodies of water across Rhode Island hang in a delicate balance as animals, plants, algae, and bacteria all thrive off each other. But,a trend of warmer winters could change that.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration took every required precaution before approving a genetically engineered salmon operation, the agency told a California federal judge, arguing there’s no basis for objections from green groups and a Native American tribe.
SPAWN will remove the large structure known as Roy's Pools that currently limits the migration of endangered coho salmon and threatened steelhead trout and creates poor habitat conditions.
“If you look at the chart of salmon numbers,” White says, “there’s a distinct line that is going down, but the last few years it has really crashed, to the point where it’s commercially just about unviable."
In December, three big players in the global seafood industry - Tesco, Nutreco and Grieg Seafood – announced a plan to source sustainable soybeans from a Brazilian region south of the Amazon that is notorious for deforestation and land grabs.
Lang Elliott celebrates the voices of the natural world, exploring the outdoors and sharing his experiences and favorite recordings from wild areas across North America and beyond.
