A near-sinking cargo barge off Bella Bella revives fears about Canada’s readiness for marine disasters — and concerns around ...

Paddle power and riverfront history: the Hazelton carried goods, people, and stories through BC's rugged waterways. In the early 1900s, the Skeena River was more than a vital waterway—it also served ...

Most industrial fish farms on the BC coast raise Atlantic salmon, a species not native to the west coast. Photo Credit: Tavish Campbell Joyce Murray, Federal Fisheries Minister. Image Source: ...

Just six corporations controlled 26 percent of all B.C. fishing licences in 2019, according to research presented at last week’s Fisheries for Communities Conference. “The value of fish caught should ...

Increase in marine traffic could cause more collisions between large whales and even larger ships. This puts humpback whales at risk. Photo credit: BC Whales The peer-reviewed study, authored by ...

A family photo taken on a beach in April 2023 shows Janet Nguyen, Christopher Duong, and their two sons—just two months before all four were found dead in their Prince Rupert home. Photo credit: Janet ...

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 ...

[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 ...

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 red-roofed, white-sided Kin Hut stands on its original site near Sparks Street and Halliwell Avenue, just north of the Heritage Park Museum. Once a community landmark, the city now uses the ...

Emergency protections for endangered southern resident killer whales are urgently needed because of increased oil tanker traffic from the expanded Trans Mountain (TMX) pipeline, says a coalition of ...

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