The draft federal plan to restore Canada's largest national park is unlikely to ease international concerns about threats posed to its status as a World Heritage site, say environmental groups and First Nations.
The National Energy Board is accepting comments on whether it should consider all climate-related impacts of the proposed Trans Mountain oil pipeline and tanker expansion in its latest review of the project.
Work on a Trans Mountain pipeline crossing in a British Columbia stream has destroyed salmon habitat, raising concerns about the Crown corporation's ability to build infrastructure.
Can scientists bring back the lost tidal forests of Puget Sound? It could take generations but restoring this rare habitat will pay big dividends for Puget Sound’s salmon.
Research on the migration and conservation of Pacific salmon, looks at how freshwater ecosystems — lakes, rivers, streams and wetlands — are changing around the globe.
B.C.'s Ministry of Environment and Climate Change Strategy is announcing new rules for farmers, intended to protect water sources and "provide more clarity for the agricultural sector."
“A salmon crisis is no longer impending, it is here” “All five species of salmon showing signs of overfishing but chinook have been reduced to a remnant of their former abundance.
"Few regulations in British Columbia have died as quick and ignoble a death as a 2014 Order in Council exempting proposed natural gas plants from having to undergo environmental assessments."
We don’t need another study to learn that breaching the four lower Snake River dams is the least expensive, most effective way to restore salmon runs and save starving southern resident Orcas.
Two years into the Trump administration, U.S. conservation groups are making progress in their legal battle over the federal government’s efforts to fast-track a series of policies that would devastate our environment.
"According to Atlantic Gold, its tailings management facility will “operate under surplus water conditions and require a discharge,” but how that “surplus water,” which will be anything but safe, will be discharged, has yet to be decided."
We have tried the hatchery-based model in all its forms — integrated, segregated, domesticated brood stock, wild brood stock, captive brood stock. The results speak for themselves: They don’t work.
The history, power and beauty of Musgamagw Dzawada’enuxw First Nation’s traditional territories and descendants celebrated in a new exhibition; Hexsa’am: To be Here Always.
Several Parksville Qualicum Beach salmon initiatives moved forward this year, with the help of grants from the Pacific Salmon Foundation and local businesses and residents.
The co-chair of the council, Doug Routley, MLA for Nanaimo/North Cowichan, says he expects to have a final report ready to go to the province early next month.
A new survey of deepwater sea stars adds to observations of their coastal counterparts to unveil the full scale of the destruction caused by the epidemic.
Sea lions have been following herring, and are expected to move on in late February to early March to follow the herring spawn off eastern Vancouver Island.
Scientists have long overlooked beavers in the intertidal zone. Now they’re counting on the freshwater rodents to restore Washington’s coastal ecosystems.
The International Pacific Halibut Commission will meet next week in British Columbia to set season dates and catch limits for the Pacific Halibut season
The province is spending $100,000 to fund a weeklong trip for 13 people to study quality standards in the Australian rock lobster industry, marine protected areas and aquaculture.
Proponents of a plan to stock adult salmon in the Miramichi River will make another attempt this year to win approval for the project from the Department of Fisheries and Oceans.
The state Department of Ecology wants more water spilled at eight federal dams on the Columbia and Snake rivers, to increase survival of young salmon migrating downstream.
In New York, according to Attorney General Letitia James, if you are buying Lemon Sole, Red Snapper, or Wild Salmon it is likely that's not what you're taking home.
Army Corps of Engineers unreasonably accelerates permit process despite requests from Bristol Bay communities for more time, stable project plan, and missing information about reckless mine proposed for headwaters of world’s greatest wild salmon fishery.
Rep. Joe Fitzgibbon presents his case for salmon preservation to aid in southern resident orca development as well as the removal of catch limits on some of the smaller salmon predators.
A coalition of NGOs, community groups, scientists, lawyers and indigenous peoples unveiled their Declaration on the Rights of the Southern Resident Orcas.
Any killing of gulls — referred to as “lethal management” or “lethal control” by the government — is a tactic the Audubon Society of Portland vehemently opposes.
A bipartisan group of 24 Washington senators introduced a bill Friday that requires ending the practice of using non-tribal gill nets to harvest salmon in the Columbia.
An early forecast from a group of state, tribal and federal fisheries managers indicates the upcoming spring chinook season could be as, or even more, disappointing than recent steelhead runs.
Commercial octopus farming, currently in developmental stages on multiple continents, would have a negative ripple effect on sustainability and animal welfare, concludes a team of researchers.
Even as the volume of seafood caught around the world declines, greenhouse gas emissions from fisheries continue to rise, hitting levels much higher than previously thought, according to new research from the University of B.C.
